Idiot plane behavior

Bubblehead1980 · 09-09-13, 07:51 PM

August 1945 TMO RSRD

Departed Subic Bay on 28 July 1945 for patrol in Gulf of Siam.After a few boring days in the Gulf, caught a convoy of 3 ships and 3 escorts leaving Bangkok and heading down the Thai/Indochina coast at night, attacked, sinking one small freighter(Taihosan Maru) , moved ahead, attacked again, while turning away the escort detected me, put me in his spotlight, scored some hits with machine guns, cannons missed then as speeding away, boom, not good but we escape. Moved in and finished off, sinking all 3 small ships for 5200 tons lol.Daybreak came, we had a nice hole in the pressure hull.With this damage, we headed for Fremantle(want test mod i created where could end at fremantle even in late war) where heavy repairs would be needed.Transiting we avoided even shallow diving except to scope depth when a plane neared.

On August 11, 1945 while transiting Lombok Strait, 3 dive bombers surprised us(SD did not pick them up early, mountains interfere?) and attacked, ordered a crash while to 100 feet.The first dive bomber had us, but in an idiotic move, he dove but did not drop his bomb! Otherwise he probably would have had us.The other two dropped of course they missed.

I have seen planes with perfect setups make dry runs.Anyone know why they do this when if they dropped, they would cause heavy damage or maybe even get a kill.

War ended while were 300 miles from Fremantle.Thus ended a pretty good career that began in Feb 45, about 35k tons down, not for 1945 as targets were scarce.

09-09-13, 07:51 PM	#1
Bubblehead1980 Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Florida USA Posts: 7,100 Downloads: 605 Uploads: 44	Idiot plane behavior August 1945 TMO RSRD Departed Subic Bay on 28 July 1945 for patrol in Gulf of Siam.After a few boring days in the Gulf, caught a convoy of 3 ships and 3 escorts leaving Bangkok and heading down the Thai/Indochina coast at night, attacked, sinking one small freighter(Taihosan Maru) , moved ahead, attacked again, while turning away the escort detected me, put me in his spotlight, scored some hits with machine guns, cannons missed then as speeding away, boom, not good but we escape. Moved in and finished off, sinking all 3 small ships for 5200 tons lol.Daybreak came, we had a nice hole in the pressure hull.With this damage, we headed for Fremantle(want test mod i created where could end at fremantle even in late war) where heavy repairs would be needed.Transiting we avoided even shallow diving except to scope depth when a plane neared. On August 11, 1945 while transiting Lombok Strait, 3 dive bombers surprised us(SD did not pick them up early, mountains interfere?) and attacked, ordered a crash while to 100 feet.The first dive bomber had us, but in an idiotic move, he dove but did not drop his bomb! Otherwise he probably would have had us.The other two dropped of course they missed. I have seen planes with perfect setups make dry runs.Anyone know why they do this when if they dropped, they would cause heavy damage or maybe even get a kill. War ended while were 300 miles from Fremantle.Thus ended a pretty good career that began in Feb 45, about 35k tons down, not for 1945 as targets were scarce.