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Originally Posted by Angelis
Not right out of the box but I‘ve read a contempory witness report of a U-466 crewmember.
Unfotunately on German.
Saying:
"Am 26.1. 1943, 17.14 Uhr Alarmtauchen wegen eines in Sicht gekommenen Flugzeuges. Um 20.38 Uhr hatten wir die erste Horchpeilung von einem Geleitzug und operierten auf diesen, jedoch ohne Erfolg, weil wir einen Maschinenschaden im Dieselraum hatten, die Kupplung war unklar."
English:
"On 26.1. 1943, 17.14 o'clock alarm diving because of an airplane coming into sight. At 8:38 p.m. we had the first sounding of a convoy and operated on it, but without success, because we had engine damage in the diesel room, the clutch was unclear."
https://ewnor.de/wk/769_wk.php |
Thanks. Assuming the time frame between the times mentioned was three hours and 24 minutes, it sounds like they just happened to pick up a convoy because of their aircraft avoidance dive vs. the dive was part of a daily routine of hydrophone checks ?