Pushed the boat as deep as should would go ~110 meters dropped to 1 knot and started a slow 5 degree circle, lost him within an hour - thank god! Had used close to half the o2
Couldn't find the crippled merchant ship so im guessing it had sunk well out of sight - darn!
Limped home and about 300 km from Lorient the look out spots an aircraft - ha whats the Luftwaffe up to.... spotted a bit late that was a damn kingfisher! Manged to shot the sod down as he made his attack run but the damn thing hit the bridge with a bomb killing all my flak crew and watch officer and flooded half the central compartments, for a couple of minutes I thought i had gotten all that way only to be sunk half a day out from harbor! Patrol ended early July - Boat wasnt ready for missions till early September!
