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Old 08-31-05, 08:20 PM   #46
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'So you headed back to base?' mused Doenitz....

"Yes Sir"

'With nine torpedoes still in your belly?'

"Yes Sir"

'Enough fuel for two more weeks at sea?'

"Yes Sir"

'I should have you and all of your crew shot for cowardice!'

"Yes, Sir"

'Why don't I, then!"

"Because not a man on the U-46 is a coward, Sir. U-46 took a pasting, Sir. It's a miracle we kept her up. We were out of radio communications for all of the battle, and she was slowly leaking.
She couldn't respond below, and we daren't risk her below 60 metres. We tried two more times with a badly damaged boat that can't manoevre, and with a flick of an English finger will send us straight to the bottom!

Are we already throwing tubs like that at the enemy!"

Jesus, I've really done it now........I'm shot for sure.

Doenitz just stares at me.

After an eternity..........


"You'll do, young man"


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Old 08-31-05, 10:02 PM   #47
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Doenitz reaches for a crystal decanter.

''You'll join me, Leutnant?'

"So what you are saying, is that one of the escorts fixes you with asdic.."

Yes, Sir

"While the other runs in and peppers you, is that it?'

Yes, Sir

"And then they swap over?"

Yes Sir

"Damned methodical - But you cut away?"

The system isn't perfect , Sir. Either their drills slipped, or there was a technological error, or one of the ships lost us for a second and we took our chance to run

"U-46 is looking a bit sorry for herself?"

It took four hours, Sir. One more escort joining in , and it would probably have been all up for us.

"How did the first destroyer find you?"

(If it's possible, Doenitz's eyes narrowed even more)

I think the English have radar, Sir. It was too much of a coincidence for them to jump us like that. They can't be reading our codes. Either that or they were very, very lucky..


"..lucky like a swordfish , you mean..?" Doenitz smiled.......

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Old 09-01-05, 11:12 AM   #48
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Coming out of the story for a moment, can I just thank everyone who has posted their appreciation of the U-46 saga.

Every single one has made my day

A couple of people have even been kind enough to suggest that I compile the reports into a book.

I don't know whether many professional editors or publishers would agree, but I am thinking of compiling them onto a website, as I have been quite frankly astonished by the response to what started off as a newbie post-patrol report, and then just grew. I don't really know how to do screenshots, so I just had to describe it!

I'll give you that website link if it takes off, but I'll still be posting here first of course!

Schuss and best regards, from

Raoul de Bunsen, U-46
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Old 09-02-05, 08:53 AM   #49
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Please do so.
I only post in the mods forum, but your writings are a reason for me to get off the technical file and tga editing thing.
Having only red Master Buchheims book, and no other stuff at all, your story is very Human, and opens a new aspect of the Uboat war to me other than F4 being the Bridge station, and F2 being the Zentrale, or F5 being the Tactical map station.

Put it together as Text, Website or PDF document, my friend, i do not care, for as long as i can read and re-read it again and again.

my old CO of JG 27 (Messerschmitt BF 109 G Pilot Squad in Cfs3) wrote a story about us, and each and every of our 12 members joined in the writing, eventually ending up with a 50 megs of PDF documents

Lesson:
Its not onlw moving dodging and shooting, RTB and get some medals.

I thank you.
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Old 09-02-05, 09:15 AM   #50
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More,more, I want to read more...
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Old 09-02-05, 08:32 PM   #51
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"You've hardly touched your cognac, Leutnant"

Doenitz freshens my glass. And watches me with a steely gaze as I gulp some down.

"You must understand that I have to ask these questions. Three big cargo ships are good, and you seemed to have followed the right agressive spirit. Perhaps give the escorts a little more leeway next time, hein?"

Yes Sir

"Look at the map."

We look at the 'Bird Table'. A huge horizontal map of the Atlantic.

There are a smattering of little u-boat models, each with a pennant bearing their number. It still seems pitifully few.

The BE sector is empty. That's where we were.

"When a boat doesn't report in, it is presumed lost, and it's pennant removed by one of the girls." Doenitz continued.

"One of my staff refused to remove your pennant even though you were a week overdue"

"I had to reprimand her of course, but It seems she had more faith in you than I could afford. We normally throw them away"

He opened a desk drawer, and plonked a pennant down with a bang on the port of St Nazaire.

It said U-46. And it looked to my startled eyes as if it had lipstick smudges on it.

"How many patrols have you done Leutnant? How many ships have you sunk? How many enemy have you killed? How many life or death decisions with your own crew have you made?

I was still staring at the lipstick on the pennant.

"I... I don't recall,Sir"

The Admiral topped me up with his finest French brandy.

Who do you think volunteered to drive you back, once that minesweeper had escorted you back in, and told us you were alive?

"Out of all those decisions, I couldn't think of an easier one to make, or a question to ask, than the one that is waiting for you outside those doors."

As the Admiral's office shut behind me, Heidi instantly looked up from the paperwork on her desk smiling.

And I shuffled nervously towards her....

Lt de Bunsen, U-46
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Old 09-03-05, 10:46 AM   #52
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I approached her desk, desperately rehearsing every line

Before I was even half way there, a blond , strikingly handsome man, still in his leather flying jacket beat me to it. His Luftwaffe uniform was immaculately pressed underneath.

"Shall we go, Heidi? We have the first dance, don't you remember, I made you promise two days ago?"

"Yes Gustav," She cast an anxious glance at the stinking, dishevelled tramp that was me.

"I must attend to the Kapitan-Leutnant, first though"

The pilot turned to face me.

"Oh, one of your sea bed-crawlers." He sneered. "And where have you been hiding when the real war has been going on, Leutnant?"

He stroked the Iron Cross at his throat. I had the sudden urge to tighten it for him. Mine, with the clasp, was still in the baggage from Kiel.

'Sinking English ships, strangling their war effort, and without much help from you fly boys!"

"And if you mean by a real war, killing civillians and bombing them out of their homes...."

"...I'm a fighter pilot. An Ace. How many planes have you shot down?"

"One...."

It wasn't much of a retort. But I was immediately thinkng of Ernst.
He'd stood there and manned the gun when we were caught out on the surface. Me and Christian desperately and clumsily manhandling him down the hatch afterwards, blood spurting everywhere. And then the sad, slight shake of Oscar's head from the Med Bay...

"Pah! That's nothing!" Gustav exclaimed

My fists clenched, and I took a step forward.

"Sirs! Please stop! Remember where you are!"

Heidi's cry stopped me in my tracks

"Come Heidi. That dance you promised me"

Gustav took her by the hand and led her out of the Chateau.

She turned her head at the door and gave me a pleading look.

And then I was alone.

I filed my logs and reports with another young clerk.

"Get me the duty driver, corporal"

"Where to, Sir?"

"Home"

"Sorry, Sir, where's that?"

"St Nazaire. U-46 quarters. That's home."

Lt de Bunsen, U-46
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Old 09-03-05, 11:00 AM   #53
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Wow, this is a great story to read. Wratt's is good as well (He is playing SH3 with no TC).
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Old 09-03-05, 01:43 PM   #54
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Quote:
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More,more, I want to read more...
me too.
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Old 09-04-05, 09:04 AM   #55
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Wow, this is fantastic stuff LS. Really exciting stuff, You're really making me care about what happens to U-46!

It would be great if someone told LS how to take screenies (I don't know either) It would add a whole new dimension to an allready fantastic story. SHIII truly is a fantastc game to inspire such great fan participation.

Also this is really very well written. I am still waiting to get my new web host and space and would love to put your story up on my website when I finish it. With your permission of course.

I am certain you could find more than one place that would be eager to host your story for the masses.

Thanks for writing such an interesting account and don't stop now! I have a feeling that U-46's next patrol will be just as riveting.


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Old 09-05-05, 11:31 AM   #56
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Ey shi t girls can be either the joy or the pain in the butt, suger or salt on top of your cake, cant tell till you try it.

Wish him a good deep sniff of fresh air, and to let things calm down around his troubled mind.µ

Time for some off duty and off girls time methinks.
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Old 09-05-05, 03:22 PM   #57
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[/quote]He stroked the Iron Cross at his throat. I had the sudden urge to tighten it for him.[/quote] :rotfl: [/quote] I was immediately thinkng of Ernst.
He'd stood there and manned the gun when we were caught out on the surface. Me and Christian desperately and clumsily manhandling him down the hatch afterwards, blood spurting everywhere. And then the sad, slight shake of Oscar's head from the Med Bay...[/quote]
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Old 09-06-05, 01:44 PM   #58
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Thanks again everyone.
I've actually started to build a website now, and it's all going ahead.
It's right I need to get some sceen shots in though with a caption and a time and date if possible

Anyway I'm working on it, and more to follow!
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Old 09-06-05, 03:01 PM   #59
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"Why so grumpy?"

Otto throws himself down by my side in the Chat Noir with two bottles of beer and some iced champagne

"You're a fine one to talk, Chief"

The bars in St Nazaire are doing a roaring trade; some of the other 7th Flotilla boats have come in, and everyone is having a fine old time. I can't seem to join in somehow.

Otto looked at me quizzically

"It's Heidi, isn't it?"

'What do you mean? Who's Heidi?'

"Do you think there's a single secret left in the U-boat service , Sir?"

I take a pull at my beer

'Oh you mean that Heidi, Otto' and force a smile

"Yes that Heidi. We're not all daft, dumb and blind you know!"

'Well you can forget the rumours, Otto. She's seeing some Fancy Dan of a Messerschmitt pilot, and no room for the likes of riff-raff like me.'

'It's not like you to give up so easily Boss, and here's something that might cheer you up....

He pulled a despatch envelope from his pocket...

"What new patrol orders so soon, U-46 is nowhere near ready...!"

'It was sent to the address of the boat. I opened it in your absence, while you were ashore, sulking. Take a look, Sir

I shook it out, still in a temper.

It was a photograph of Heidi

Not in uniform, it was a red summer dress and she was posed by a lake. Obviously taken and kept from not long before the war. She looked beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.

On the back was written

'Schnell nach Heimat kommen, mein Liebe'

Below it, at first I thought it was a heart with an arrow though it.

But it had been written with something of a shaking hand in lipstick. a lipstick I recognised from our pennant back at BdU.

It was a swordfish.

And it was smiling at me.


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Old 09-06-05, 04:34 PM   #60
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Hi, found your post last night and ended up finishing reading at 2 am with work at five. Made me want to comment and congratulate in my first post.
Riviting stuff, really increases the immersion in the sim as we can all relate so well to your story from our own careers. We just haven't the ability you have for telling it. Made me emotional and that's not easy.
Glad you're posting your work as you have a natural talent. What with the brilliant mods produced by those talented people and your postings no wonder this sim produces a community of this caliber which I haven't seen in other games.
Thanks again to all.
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