Yes...I believe that now. I never expected them to backtrack. If I had kept on going in some of my attempts, I likely would have found the convoy. I thought the course changing would vary but never be more than 45 degrees off the current heading. That must have been some piece of work managing these course changes during the real deal.
I just finished the patrol. The convoy I finally found lost a Black Swan and 6 large tankers. Now it's January 7th, 1942 and I'm off to my assigned grid just outside Gibraltar.
I keep forgetting to tell everyone about a patrol I was on back in early 1940. I was making my way carefully through the English Channel on the surface at night when I got ambushed by a PT Boat. But just as the PT was getting into range, it got blown out of the water by two Stukas. I watched from the periscope as I was diving. The PT was firing on me but suddenly the crew swung their guns upwards trying to defend themselves. The bombs literally blew the boat into the air causing it to flip over. Amazing to see.
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