Learning the hard way -some of my greatest mistakes

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Originally Posted by MantiBrutalis

Attacking fishing and recreational vessels was a war crime. As for tugboat, so few were sunk in the war that I think a U-boat commander did rather keep his position hidden than sink a 500 ton tugboat risking it sending an SSS.

Interesting how that distinction was never observed in Pacific. The Japanese routinely pressed every manner of Southeast Asian native craft into service by the thousands, from junks, schooners, fishing barks and sampans doing everything from hauling troops and cargo to acting as relay and picket vessels, and the US routinely shot them up with abandon with both aircraft and subs.

But then the British never got so desperate for cargo capacity that they had to resort to using small fry to haul troops and supplies.