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Old 09-17-08, 01:28 AM   #7
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reminds me - i was near gibralter last week. nearer than i should have been and two hurricanes jumped me from out of nowhere.

It was a clear sunny day with calm seas in mid 1941, and i had a full watch crew on the bridge at 1x time compression while i fiddled with some book work unrelated to SH3.

suddenly they spotted the pair of fighters rushing in toward me in a steep dive... but for some reason, they didn't spot them until they were at about 4KM.

2 diving hurricanes can cover 4 KM in an instant.

I ordered the crash dive... even as we were clearing 25 meters i could hear the bullets hitting the hull like a hand full of tiny rocks.

it was a tense moment, as i expected their bombs to hit the sea next... the bombs came, but fortunately they did little more than rock the U-boat.

it was a very close call.
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