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Originally Posted by iambecomelife
I am curious - in real life, did the Kriegsmarine award credit to whichever U-Boat "last touched" a ship? So, for instance, one commander could torpedo a ship and leave it burned-out & abandoned, but someone else who sank it days later with a couple deck gun hits would get 100% of the tonnage? That seems unfair. I know some air forces divided credit for kills or awarded them to whoever did the most damage.
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Not sure. I imagine they shared the kill like fighter pilots?
but i do know the tonnage counts are somewhat innaccurate. We know there were accounts where a skipper engaged a merchant, slammed a torpedo or two into her side and she went to the brink of that point of no return and was reported sunk, but the crew managed to sail her into port heavily damaged and not actually sunk after all