U-67 Joins Paukenschlag

[Brag]

After a 32 day passage, on 03 April 1942, we arrived to our patrol sector just NE of Cape Hateras. The weather enroute had been absolutely unspeakable and caused us to burn a lot more fuel than anticipated. We had just a hair over 50% of diesel remaining in the bunkers.

Being thoroughly averse to shallow water, I found a nice deep hole SE of Hatteras where I could cover most traffic rounding the cape. 1000 meters depth off the American coast is fat city.

For two days the only contacts were 2 destroyers, a sailboat, and a dinky super small freighter not worth a torp.

The weather continued to be outrageously bad.

In the morning of the 7th. we intercepted an ore carrier in apalling visibility, it took two torpedoes to sink it.

Visibility improved in the afteroon. Two tankers came our way requiring a little bit of astern propulsion for us to get into firing position.

I sent two fish at the lead tanker. The first torpedo hit forward, the ship exploded and sank within seconds.

I sent a magnetic greeting toward the now zizagging second oiler. American tankers burn much better than British ones. The floating bonfire sank within minutes.

A liberty and a small freighter added tonnage to 52,000 and we still hve 9 torpedoes left. If we have enough fuel to get back home, this is already a successful patrol.