U-505 page 12

 U-505 page 12 by ric gustafson

Around 3:15 pm on November 10 1942, Flight Sergeant Ron Sillcock was scanning the ocean. His Lockheed Hudson twin engine light bomber already had two U-boat notches on it's frame. Sillcock wanted a third notch. It was an ideal weather day. Then Sillcock smiled. He had spotted a boat. It was the U-505.

Gunnery Officer Gottfried Stolzenburg spotted something in the sky straight ahead with his binoculars. If it was a plane, it was quiet. At the last moment, Stolzenburg noticed it was a plane. 

" A plane!". Stolzenburg yelled. " Emergency! Dive Dive".

It was too late. 

Sillcock manuevered his plane for another kill.

By the time U-505 figured out what was going on, a 250 pound bomb was dropped by Sillcock. His aim was perfect. The bomb ripped through U-505's foredeck.

U-505's luck had run out.

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