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Originally Posted by ddiplock
So, I use my discretion and start maneuvering into a firing position on the lead Kongo. One of the nearside destroyers opens up with his ASDIC and everything goes to hell. I dive down to 400ft and evade the sods, not a single depth charge landing near me.
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See, they didn't really even come close, did they? Just need a little boldness. The pre-war old-man mentality makes you go deep and hide in fear.
I just did it last night in the Java Sea in a pigboat. The depth charges being dropped weren't that close, and my soundman was tracking one can coming towards me, but he was going to pass by me, so I knew they didn't know where I was, and I went up to periscope depth, and saw what looked like the whole Japanese merchant navy. I managed to sink a freighter as another can bore down on me. Even then, they didn't really find me.