I Think I Just Shot Down A Betty w/ The Deck Gun!

[PacificSwordsman]

I'm headed back to Pearl after a successful patrol and somewhere in the vicinity of Wake Island, the enemy decides to send the entire Japanese maritime air force after my sub. After fighting off repeated attacks, I am out of ammo for the anitaircraft gun. Furthermore, I am unable to submerge, as my crew is in the middle of repairing some damage to the bulkhead from an earlier attack.

I get attacked again by another pair of Bettys and decide to try to spoil their aim, or scare them off, with the deck gun. I fire several shots at them as they are inbound, and it does somewhat distrupt their aim, as their bombs fall wide to starboard.

As they start climbing outbound, I fire another round at them. I am stunned to see a flash similar to the flashes I have seen when my deck gun rounds impact a ship at long range. One of the Betty's then goes into a death spiral and explodes on impact with the ocean surface. I stare in disbelief.

Has anyone else taken down an airplane with the deck gun? If so, I would love to hear the story.