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Originally Posted by GoldenRivet
I really wish they would have included survivors in the water in SH3, allied sailors bobbing up and down in the water often gave the U-boats a tactical edge!
Allied destroyers would temporarily hault their depth charge attacks in SOME situations since the DCs would kill anyone floating in the water if they were too close to the attack.
For instance, if you closed to within a hundred yards or so of a sinking ship, and there were survivors treading water, the destroyers would have had no choice but to wait until you cleared the area or until the survivors were picked up.
I read a great book called "torpedo junction" it tells the story of the U-boat attacks off the US coast during which it tells a brief story of a U-boat of the US coast that as attacked by a destroyer, it surfaced and most of the crew abandoned ship during the attack, with 30 or 40 men floating in the water, the destroyer commander thought the sub skipper was dumping out crew men to create the illusion of abandoning ship... as the sub went back under (it was really sinking) the destroyer made a depth charge run on the sinking sub. this killed every German Sailor in the water... surely the allies would have considered this while mounting attacks with allied men in the water?
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I read that book also & recently visited the Hampton National Cemetery.. I found the graves of the crew from U-85 in the Pheobus section.. They're buried along side other foreign troops & crews killed in the US or offshore in this case, during the war.