Hunt and Kill by Theodore P. Savas

Author:Theodore P. Savas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bisac Code 1: HIS027100
ISBN: eBook ISBN: 9781611210019
Publisher: Savas Beatie
Published: 2004-06-18T16:00:00+00:00

U-505 was running submerged on electric motors a little after midday (German summer time) on June 4 when a faint propeller wash was picked up on the hydrophones and passed to Lange. Perhaps an Allied convoy had wandered into the U-boat’s vicinity? Maybe the patrol would not be a complete bust after all. Lange ordered to boat to periscope depth and mounted the ladder into the conning tower to take a look around. As U-505 trimmed into periscope depth an unusual metallic “clinking” noise echoed through the boat. Decker remembered it as “a scraping sound, as if someone were dragging a long cable along the deck above. It stopped, then started again.” Most aboard were puzzled; some were terrified the sound was a chain linking a moored mine scraping along their iron flank. The sound ended abruptly only to be replaced by another sound, one that chilled the hearts of all who heard it:

“Destroyer!”

Lange bellowed his warning as he spun the scope around before slamming it back into its well. Valves were turned and diving planes angled to speed U-505’s slide into deep water. The strange “clinking” sound was not a chain anchoring a mine but machine gun bullets from two carrier-based airplanes circling overhead firing into the water to mark the U-boat’s position for approaching surface ships. In the few seconds available to him Lange had grasped the entire panorama closing in on him: the fighter planes, at least three destroyers, and the distant silhouette of an aircraft carrier.

The odds were heavily stacked against him.

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