Late 43 - What a pain

[Reece]

Hi all, well life on a U-boat is starting to suck big time!! Trying to get to my patrol area & even with my radar off planes still seem to hone in on me, I'm able to get to dive in time but what a pain, I wait till they are well & truly gone & raise the snorkel, hit TC to 64, next thing I'm getting damaged! I eventually get through that & radar detector picks up a destroyer moving across my path, I setup for a shot, running silent & just peeking everynow & then to get TDC settings, he closes to around 800 meters, slows down & starts pinging, my hands are shaking & make a quick adjustment to speed, he is still on the same course, I decide to fire 2 shots, the first misses & the second hits & bounces off!! Gee I hate that, the distance was around 500 meters, I should have used impact pistol! Well I dived deep & the fun begins! I'd wait for him to drop DC's & hedgehogs, then speed up for awhile then back to 2 knots, deploy decoys & change course, then in comes his buddies overhead, bombs dropping everywhere:

Finally escape with only minor damage, came across 2 more air patrols before my final patrol grid! whew, I'm still alive!