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Originally Posted by Kruger
Avoid the planes. Attack only submerged, even the lonely merchants, or try hitting them first with the dack gun, but only from great distances. In the case of convoys, avoid being detected by the escorts. Try to position yourself between the columns if possible, and launch bow and stern torpedos at the same time, against 3 merchants, at least cripple their engines. Then..dive. Dive deep...I allways go 200, 220 metres (if my hull is intact) and silent. Pray. Use your  |
I usually avoid planes, this time it was sunrise, had to surface a few minutes for my sun fix ( I use manual navigation ) and thought I was far enough from land... a couple hurricanes strafed the boat no big damage but probably some loss of hull integrity.
This time I had made a submerged attack, sunk 1 troop transport and slowed down one large merchant. Got away undetected. Wanted to come back finish the merchant (greedy...) which was trailing behind. As daybreak was coming nearer, I made the mistake to come too close at high speed, got visually spotted and 3 escorts on me.
