My most successful attack on a convoy? Well it was March 1942 when I came accross a convoy just outside Miami in the US East Coast. The weather was great and the sea really calm. The convoy was really large, with 4 lanes of Tankers and 4 or 6 Destroyers as escort. I approached on the surface, running decks awash and I've managed to sneak passed the escorts on the right hand side. The night was moonless and visibility poor for the escorts. After the first salvo was fired I went to periscope depth and kept firing until all the internal loads of my IXC were emptied. The final result was 6 Tankers and a couple of Destroyers sunk on the spot for 70,000 tons. Two more tankers were damaged and picked up later with the deck gun (after the convoy moved away) to top up the kills to a total of almost 90,000 tons.
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