First aircraft carrier.

[IceGrog]

Late 1943 (GWX) I was heading back to Lorient with only one torpedo in my bow and one in the stern. I had taken some heavy beatings from trying to get close to some convoys, but I decided to return home when I ran across some DDs that were crisscrossing ahead and off my starboard. It was heavy weather so I decided to stay at periscope depth and see what was behind these boys, and right there was an aircraft carrier, a small one but still a carrier. She would cross my path perfectly. A DD was slowly following off her stern a ways back and her path would cross right over me, so I waited for the carrier to get in closer but at 3200 I had to loose a torpedo, as I dived I kept the special camera on the carrier and bingo I hit her just front of her amidships. I see she has to go down but how long I don’t know, the DD’s are warming up and I can’t go as deep as I would want to.
If I’m able to escape and the carrier goes down, how far away can I get from her and still get credit for the sinking, my first carrier sinking in a career and I want it bad.