By God I hate airplanes!!!

[Foghladh_mhara]

Its May 1943 and I know its gonna get harder but the activity from the air is phenomenal! I was only about 50km from St Nazaire when I got my first shock. Picking up loads of radar emissions everywhere from the surface ships so when the watch crew spotted aircraft I figured they were our own. To be safe I put the flak crew on the guns and next minute they started opening up. 2 British bombers came streaking in on the starboard beam. Gunners got them both but not before they had dropped their bombs and made a mess of my boat!

I repaired the damage and kept going towards my patrol grid off Iceland. Ran into a convoy west of Ireland and started mauling it. It was only going 6 knots. Loads of big ships and courtesy of my FaTs I sank a Whale Factory, a heavy transport and a large cargo all from my first attack. The escorts were pretty bad and even with manual targeting I had plenty of time to set up solutions. I went deep reloaded and then planned my flanking procedure.

I never got to flank them. I ran out wide surfaced and put on flank speed. 10 mins later radar detected coming in fast. Dive. Resurface, dash, dive and so on. I got caught late at one point and turns out they were Mosquitos, 4 of them. 500km off the Irish coast and they stuck about for hours!!

Even with a 10 knot advantage in speed I couldn't catch the convoy cos I couldn't stay on the surface long enough to take advantage ot it.

Really makes you wonder how the U-Boat crews felt towards the Luftwaffe who weren't even a presence to keep Biscay safe when geographically it was so much closer to their occupied territory