U-505 page 6

 U-505 page 6 by ric gustafson

Loewe yelled. " Alarm! dive! dive!".

The U-505 is twenty feet below the surface.

Loewe began looking through the periscope. He spots the freighter. " Make ready one and two". The boat had four torpedo tubes. When all torpedo doors are open, the torpedo tanks flood with water. In the control room, Hans Goebeler has to keep the boat level.

Loewe looks through the periscope. The freighter is now only 600 meters away. Loewe looks up. " Torpedoes away fire one fire two". Loewe and the crew now wait.

The radioman smiles. " One torpedo was a direct hit the other was not".

Loewe grinned. " What ship is it?".

" It is a British freighter the SS Benmohr".

" What was the cargo?".

" Probably war supplies like rubber and pig iron".

Loewe and crew were very happy. It was their first kill.

The next day, the U-505 sank a British tanker filled with oil. The tanker was called the ' Sydhav".

It was the U-505's second kill.

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