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Originally Posted by mrbeast
I read about the happening somewhere can't remember where though, the crew could hear the DCs rolling down the side of the conning tower! I also recall an instance where a sub or U boat surfaced and had a dud DC caught on the deck casing! How about opening the hatch and seeing that little baby sitting there?!  |
This happened to the I-176 North of Rabaul in 1943 after dropping off supples and evacuating wounded solders from finchaven. The XO said that one night a B-25 suddenly came out of the sky and they crashed dive under a hail of 50 cal. fire at about 20M down they heard a thump and a small boom like a firecracker. they came back up after a few hours and as they opened the hatch in the tower the first guy out must of freaked out. the charge was laying inside the tower bridge. they say some sort of yellowish substance was around it. the detonator had gone off but it didn't set off the main charge. Lucky Lucky japs!. On that same mission while at finchaven they got bombed by more B-25's while in the bay at night, the Capitan got shot (not mortally). and the XO beached the sub on a reef. after plugging up all the holes over night they waited for high tide to get the sub back off, high tide came and the sub wouldn't budge. then came the order from the bridge "all hands on deck". from atop the tower the XO ordered with a megaphone "Ok now, everybody run from one side of the boat to the other" and by god knows how Japanese ingenuity worked and the boat started rocking and they got it off!