they' re out to get U603, and they did

[czwij]

may 1943 (black may)

i have requisitioned as a new captain, boat U 603, a VIIC vessel at St Nazaire.

i go out and 140NM into the bay of biscay, aircraft bounce us. no time to dive, we drive them away (around 4am), but bow dive planes are blown clear off (thanks to thomsens no instant death mod - really messes up yer boat when heavily damaged, but wow!!!). we are still afloat and return, but not before being bounced again twice. i fear submerging so we duke it out.

month later

back into the bay, 60NM out and bamm, 6 aircraft. crashdive. everything and i mean all systems, are destroyed. we sink like a stone to 65m, bottom out on the bottom and seal up the leaks. nothing works. nothing. no diesels, batteries, compressor, main pump, radio. zero. lucky the airtanks have enough to blow ballast. after 8 hours fixing and almost dying of CO2, we emerge topside, in the dark, but can't move. row row row your boat.... exit patrol.

another month goes by

clinging a few miles from shore going south along the coast of France. I gotta have aircover here, right? wrong. bounced again by two aircraft. dive full speed at flank speed, bottom of sea is 23m and ........ the boat gets blown to smithereens. this time we die. we sink lying on starboard side, 23m below the surface, diesel fuel and blood rise to the surface to be washed away by the tide. we were 40NM out of harbour fer crissakes!


what the hell was that? 1943?! that was the worst scenario i have ever seen.