02-04-07, 07:13 PM
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Planesman 
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Originally Posted by IRONxMortlock
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Originally Posted by Karl-Heinz Jaeger
The next encounter was in the fjord at Namsos, same extremely bad weather, heavy rain and fog, wind speed 17MS. And out of nowhere comes this Fiji class. I'm running roughly parallel, ahead of him as he comes from behind. Spin up tubes 1 & 3, depth 3 metres, fast speed, impact pistol. A quick turn, my Exec lines up the TBT and....Torpedo, LOS! Less than a minute later, hits fore and aft and she lights up like a Christmas tree. All of a sudden, along comes a Troop transport, followed by another! Too good to be true, and not an escort to be seen. Same deal as before, 2 torps each and even though they were zig zagging, all were hits fired from >800m. As I'm moving off I spot a third Troop Transport, swerving to avoid crashing into his dead buddy. I'm out of torps, so I run parallel to him as I reload.
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I came across that exact same task force yesterday. Two troop transports and a fiji. These guys were sitting stationary inside a fjord though so although the water was only 11m deep, I was able to sneak in (Type IID) and launch torps from about 10,000m out. Escorts never had clue. Fiji went down with two and three other torps were duds. The last destroyed a troop transport. Not a bad days work for a Type II! |
Pretty good going mate! Sounds like Onkel Karl will be most pleased with your little dugout canoe!
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