I've been bailed out by the Luftwaffe before. I ran into a pair of DDs near Heligoland once, they were covering a minelaying op. I missed my shots, and they came after me in fairly shallow water. Lucky for me, I had sent in a contact report. After almost an hour dodging DDs and trying to get out of their search pattern I start hearing explosions. Wait a minute says I, those arent depth charges ! So I switch to ship cams and find that a Ju-87 squadron has pounced on the destroyers. So i got to watch the last 8 or 9 Stukas make their runs.
It was beautiful. Flame, smoke and tracers all over the place. A couple planes were shot down, but both destroyers took at least two hits and sank. Wish I'd had fraps going.
So I surfaced, threw out some life preservers, and continued on to my patrol area.
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