11-15-07, 11:25 AM
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Chief of the Boat
Join Date: Feb 2006
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Originally Posted by Hartmann
Wow .. 
a XXI boat is a deadly machine in hands of a skilled commander .
" on 4th May, U-2511 detected a Suffolk class cruiser, HMS Norfolk, with destroyer escort at a long range. She made a text-book approach, closing at high-speed first, then diving deep and passing the destroyer screen at silent-speed. Finally, Schnee had the cruiser in sights 500 meters away with a perfect attacking position inside the destroyer screen and undetected- impossible not miss. U-2511 did not fire but dived deep again, and still undetected returned to base, arriving at Bergen on 5th May 1945. |
So why were no eels fired ? :hmm:
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Oh my God, not again!!
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