Realistic attacks!

Ivan Putski · 03-04-08, 10:58 AM

I was on my 22nd patrol, June 1942 in area AK62, the sea was very heavy, winds 15 meters per second when I contacted a merchant at long range. It was dusk, I usually don`t bother with attacking ships in that type of weather conditions, waste of eels. I had been out for 14 days without a sighting, so said give it a go. I had a milch cow not to far from my position, so I plotted the merchants course, and set up for an attack, reching the intercept point I went to 22 meters, and picked up the Merchants screws, he was close. Reaching PD, I was surprised to find two American Granville-Type Freighters.

At that point I had an almost perfect AOB on them, range close around 600 meters, set depth 2 meters under their keel, and gave the trailing one 2 eels, made slight adjustment, and fired 2 at the lead freighter. All 4 mags detonated under their targets. The rear freighter was exploding, the lead was ablaze, and got off a couple rounds at my scope, which I returned to it`s armor housing. It took a little over an hour, but the lead freighter finally went down, and BDU was happy. Puts

03-04-08, 10:58 AM	#8
Ivan Putski Captain Join Date: May 2005 Location: Memphis, Tn. U.S.A. Posts: 548 Downloads: 21 Uploads: 0	I was on my 22nd patrol, June 1942 in area AK62, the sea was very heavy, winds 15 meters per second when I contacted a merchant at long range. It was dusk, I usually don`t bother with attacking ships in that type of weather conditions, waste of eels. I had been out for 14 days without a sighting, so said give it a go. I had a milch cow not to far from my position, so I plotted the merchants course, and set up for an attack, reching the intercept point I went to 22 meters, and picked up the Merchants screws, he was close. Reaching PD, I was surprised to find two American Granville-Type Freighters. At that point I had an almost perfect AOB on them, range close around 600 meters, set depth 2 meters under their keel, and gave the trailing one 2 eels, made slight adjustment, and fired 2 at the lead freighter. All 4 mags detonated under their targets. The rear freighter was exploding, the lead was ablaze, and got off a couple rounds at my scope, which I returned to it`s armor housing. It took a little over an hour, but the lead freighter finally went down, and BDU was happy. Puts __________________ " Is He?..........Yeah..........Nothing Moving, But His Watch."