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Old 06-18-22, 01:26 PM   #5283
KaleunMarco
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Default East China Sea Patrol April 1945

Some screens from a recent war patrol.

Not sure what this little bugger is, but every time we submerged it appeared. Spooky.

This one is kind of hard to see in a photo so i'll narrate.
we had just gutted a convoy of tankers and then went deep to evade.
"Deep" being relative in that we were in 275 foot waters.
we caught a break and found a thermal at approx 255 feet.
this DD and her cousins were pinging their a$$es off trying to find us.
THIS particular DD sailed right over the top of us, at about 1/2 knot more than our speed. it felt like it took an hour for her to completely pass us by.
And pass us by she did.


This last shot is the same engagement with a second DD sailing right over the top of us. fortunately, we were not really breathing so there was nothing for them to hear.
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