Crushing fishing boats: historical?

[starkwolf]

Originally Posted by XenonSurf

The 'human life-saving' way is simple: if you are spotted by an enemy fishing boat make sure it spots you at doing a heading that was not your original course, once you get far away enough, out of sight, you return to your original course. Simple enough, that's what I would do. No way that they can report anything useful about you (except that you exist of course...If that's too much you need to kill them. At war you kill your enemies.)
The best solution is not getting in sight at all.

Logically yes, better even than what I was thinking. That said, putting a siren on a dive bomber and driving up the time it takes to produce it simply for the sake of frightening your enemies seemed logical to Hitler. War has a way of making people aggressive beyond what is rational, and I was wondering if that was the case here by any chance.