A Shokaku can be your friend

[Berinhardt]

While hiding under a badly damaged burning cruiser to reload torps and dodge destroyers, the enemy called in air support. While the planes were dive bombing my location, they hit the cruiser which started to sink right over the top of me.

I was at 200 feet and was using my external camera to watch the action, so I had a few seconds to jump to flank speed and try to get out of the way. I still collided with the cruiser on the way down, and had to maintain flank speed to keep from sinking to the bottom - which of course drew the destroyers straight to me.

For the next hour I managed to evade 2 destroyers and the overhead aircraft while the crew made repairs. Just when I thought I was done for the DD's ran out of depth charges. As darkness fell, and the batteries faded I managed to reload the stern tubes and set the destroyers up for a topedo attack.

As the last destroyer was sinking, I surfaced the boat and limped back to Pearl to get chewed out for the condition of my boat.