Coming "home" in Bergen
After 24 hours duty in quadrant AF 75 without any contact, except with the Liberators, we decided to change position in the quadrant AM 11
When we entered the quadrant AM 23, received message of a large convoy moving cross rate against us, with average speed and direction north, northwest After an hour, two intercept the convoy, consisting only of tankers and a ship to transport ammunition.
The convoy was guarded by nine destroyers who had traveled round
The head of the convoy moved a lone large tanker after it immediately three destroyers covering a large security perimeter.
Naturally, we missed the tanker past us and headed to rapprochement with the pre-selected targets.
We had two attacks, the first two tankers in the second three tanker and natural munitions ship, which not surprisingly flew into the air and only sighed heavily and took the bottom.
Between the two attacks of course had a series of depth charges.
Shortly after the second attack, the weather deteriorated much and it was impossible to maintain periscope depth without being detected
Losers often contact with the convoy, then again we establish it, etc.
The result of two attacks - five tankers and ship carrying ammunition and several hits without serious consequences, two torpedoes missed