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Old 11-09-2007, 03:01 AM   #3 (permalink)
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There's an interesting little snippet about the hunt/chase in Bob Whinney's The Uboat Peril when he was A/S officer on HMS Cossack.

She might have ended up as a Tallboy/Grand Slam target eventually a la her sister. Certainly would have been tied up in a French port under almost constant air attack. Even in port she would have tied up a lot of Allied resources over potentially a longer period than the actual pursuit.
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Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM.
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