[John Pancoast]

Just a quick reply, I'll read the articles later.
- No, any u-boat within a convoy was done via it entering the convoy from behind. This was not a common tactic at any time of the war and of course, was completely useless once radar came into play. The boats came from the rear because that was generally less well escorted than the rest of the convoy and convoy "eyes" tended to be to the front and sides more.
Off the top of my head I only know two skippers even mentioning doing it.
- sometimes wartime descriptions of an event need to be taken in context. I.e., just because a convoy thought they were being attacked from within doesn't mean they actually were.
Confusion, etc. can lead to false reports. Just like "eye witness" reports of a crime often are not accurate.
Another example, iirc there are numerous examples of convoy skippers describing some attack and thinking they were being attacked by x number of u-boats, largely because of the severity and number of attacks, when in reality the actual number of u-boats involved was much smaller.
Anyway not saying that is the case with the Time articles, but worth a mention.
- it is all but impossible to simulate this tactic in SH3 for various reasons, convoy spacing restraints being one of them.