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It was April 23,1943 The boat and crew had been at war with the United States since December 1941 it was hard and dangerous work they did. Unterseaboot U- 47,with Commander Mueller and her crew lay on the sandy bottom in about sixty feet of water off the Virginia Capes. They were resting and waiting out the daylight hours. Walter was lying in his bunk looking over his log books from the last four years.
U-47 , was very successful in its campaigning against the allies. During the four years she had been commissioned she had sunk twenty- two ships big and small. The boat had sunk 331,000 Tons of shipping. Commander Mueller's total lack of fear and his genius in attacking and escaping were in large part responsible. He always did the unexpected.
The English strategy of using convoys covered by destroyer and cruiser escorts had been working.
Most of the U boat Commanders had grown to careful in their attacks on shipping that was escorted in this fashion. They had good cause, The British had recently sunk several U boats and at least two more barley escaped and these were seriously damaged.
Here along the U.S. Coast the Americans had learned much they to were using escorted convoys. They had also bee successful using airplanes along with destroyers to search out and destroy U-boats. Walter had done well against these convoys. He and u-47 had learned to hide in the edge of the gulf stream where temperatures were constantly changing back and forth. It confused sonar and listening devices. His attacks were made near one of these edge areas to provide him with cover.
He would sneak in and strike two or three ships. The young Commander had learned to hide almost under a ship it's propeller noise would cover his own sounds, His ability to escape was a certain amount of luck and a lot of cunning. The Americans were building liberty ships faster than they could be sunk. The good news was they were great to hide under their slow speeds allows U47 to keep up with them while he was under them.