Port attacks still seem to pay off in a big way, at least early in the war. Jan '40 I enter Dunkirk, and after taking out the five docked or anchored Polish V&W destroyers(who furiously pinged me but never moved), I surfaced inside the harbour, putting a total of 57000 tons of shipping to the bottoms with torps, deck gun and flak, ranging from a 24000 ton liner to a 17 ton sloop. All in the glare of the searchlights of every ship in the harbour. Gung-ho? Hell, if they can see my scope but aren't firing, might as well surface and make it all go down quickly. I was out of the harbour after two hours, leaving not a single ship afloat. /brag
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