Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ghosting over the South Atlantic, patrol planes sighted a strange merchant vessel. That night the U.S. destroyer Somers caught up with her, recognized an enemy, opened fire with 5-in. guns. The merchantman's crew began abandoning ship at the first salvo. When the destroyer closed, demolition charges sent the freighter to the bottom...
...chose submarine service because I was lazy. Submariners got more pay, and had more time in port. That appealed to me. I was navigating officer on H.M.S. Ursula [real name, use permitted by the British Admiralty], out five days on a patrol in the Helgoland Bight when war began...
...happy, and were wetting their lips a bit. Well, when we got back in harbor, we felt pretty good because we had sunk five ships of 20,000 total tonnage. We had a hell of a blind and plenty of hooch. After that, I was ready for the next patrol...
...Very Nice Bang." I went back to my old submarine, the Ursula, in 1942 but this time as captain. Our first patrol was to cover one of the convoys to Russia. It was badly beaten up. The submarines were along to cover in case the Tirpitz and the Scheer came out. They did. A friend of mine in another submarine made a radio signal to say they were out, but those two great disappearers went right back in and we didn't see them again...
Escape and Reward. On another patrol we waylaid a convoy. It was bright moonlight and rather difficult to carry out an attack on the surface because eventually we would be sighted. I hadn't appreciated they were zigzagging. When I was just ready to fire, everything all set, the fellow I was attacking zigged straight towards me. I couldn't get deep quite soon enough and the ship ran over the top of us. It smashed both periscopes, and took away quite large chunks of the bridge. We snooped beneath the convoy until they had passed. We were...