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Originally Posted by Penelope_Grey
Are they supposed to hit you and sort of, bounce off? If you are not deep enough for them to explode?
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I read about a U Boat that had a depth charge land on it's deck.....and that it hadn't exploded because the detonation depth had not been reached.
After surfacing the crew saw the present lying there waiting....one Chinese volunteer was picked to roll it overboard....
I believe the book was "Das Boot', not sure...
Edit: apparently it happened more than once....this is from USS Gato:
Sixth and seventh war patrols, August 1943 – January 1944
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Gato was routed onward to the Mare Island Naval Shipyard for overhaul; returned to Pearl Harbor 22 August 1943; and conducted her sixth war patrol (6 September – 28 October) via Truk and Bougainville in the Solomons to Brisbane. En route on 19 October she attacked a convoy, scoring hits for unknown damage to two large cargo ships. Her seventh war patrol (18 November 1943 – 10 January 1944) took her north of the Bismarck Archipelago. On 30 November she made a coordinated attack with Ray, sinking the cargo ship Columbia Maru. She rescued a Japanese soldier from a life-raft on 16 December; then attacked a convoy in the Saipan-Massau traffic lanes four days later to sink cargo ship Tsuneshima Maru and scored damaging hits on another freighter. After two hours of dodging depth charges, she finally evaded her attackers; surfaced and headed for Tingmon, the most likely course of the damaged cargo ship. Gato discovered a live depth charge on her deck at the same time that two enemy escorts headed in her direction were sighted. She outran them while disposing of the unexploded depth charge by setting it adrift, on a rubber raft.
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