Bye bye Kaluen
Hubert Ammann and U-732 are no more. Well they left on January 17 from Brest, very slowly crawling to my grid in AK13 which they never reached. I swear the Brits are turning the Atlantic into a permanent airshow!!!
Well on those long submerged periods I did some chores, cleaned my bathroom and toilet.
I actually found a lone tommie large cargo maybe a straggler who spotted me before I dove, called air support, and was weaving so much and caused us to waste two torpedoes. I loaded 2 TIs to replace which may have had consequences.
About 40 hours away from my grid, still diving constantly from RWR warnings, I got contact details of 2 !!!! outgoing convoys and I was smack on the path of one of them. I patiently waited, submerged to 40M silent running when we detected radar emissions from the escorts and slipped through the screen. Fired at 2 vessels, a liberty cargo and a medium tanker with my 2 TIs, and the TIII and TIII FAT. Let loose my Falke at one of the escorts (all Castle or Buckleys
) who was actually too far
.
I started to dive and got a hit....and then much later another hit (my FAT I suppose) but got into the death circle, I guess my TI wakes were spotted? This was early morning just before sunrise. To cut to the chase after 1/2 hour chase with 4 escorts I got serious flooding in the 2 forward compartments which filled with blue and the crew could not pump the water out. Used up all compressed air to no avail..it was really sickening to watch.
U-732 got to about 500 M before crushing !!! .. the escorts heard implosion sounds and noted a slick on the sea. Two ships in the convoy were damged but managed to keep up with the convoy and reach New York safely.
U-732 got 4 merchants and 1 warship for 39079 tons and 7 patrols.
I think I'll go to a smaller sea next career, Black Sea and be near the biggest land war ever, or the Med with its nice weather and good food and wine.
