If you're lurking at periscope depth in clear water they only need Mark I eyeballs to blast you to kingdom come. However, your lurking at 150 meters leads me to believe you had some hull damage and bought it for venturing too deep for conditions. The Type IX isn't good for 200 meters perfectly sound. I found crush depth at 157 with 32% hull damage.
Whew! Got back to Lorient. That 1000 km was about three times longer than my blind 3000 mile return trip in the fleet boat! I was attacked more times by airplanes in that approximately 500 miles than on the return journey of six times that in the fleet boat! And the Allied planes packed much better accuracy, more deadly weapons and better locating ability than my Japanese friends. There is NO CHANCE of sitting on the surface and making with the AA guns. You might as well spit at them. Into the wind.:rotfl:
So after a refit I am ready to descend into the pit of Hell once again! Those worn-out ugly girls with makeup caked like plaster looked mighty good, considering what we'll be looking at for our next attempt at the Indian Ocean. We looked death in the eye and came back to tell about it. But ole Death said he'd be back...
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