About to start the Yankee Modelworks S class kindly donated to me by another modeler. I'm building her as S-41, which was my grandfather's first command.
https://uboat.net/allies/commanders/3563.htmlI'm going to build her on her fourth war patrol, which my grandfather was awarded the Navy Cross for.
From Wiki.
"Fourth war patrol, July 1942
On 22 July, she headed out of Moreton Bay, returned for emergency repairs; and, on 7 August, got underway for the New Britain-New Ireland area. She fired on several enemy ships, including a submarine with probable damage, and her patrol was noted for its "absence of serious material failures" — an achievement unique in boats of her class at that time.
Moving to the Guadalcanal area later in the patrol, S-41 was operating 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) from Savo Island when a ship moving at high speed — which her commanding officer identified as a possible cruiser — passed her in the predawn darkness of 24 August 1942 after she submerged and three depth charges exploded close enough to her to shatter light bulbs. On 25 August in the same general area, she observed a destroyer passing her and heard eight depth charges explode no closer than 400 yards (370 m) from her. As the night wore on, a destroyer began searching for her with active sonar, so she cleared the area. On the evening of 25 August. she received a message ordering her to return to her patrol station, a surprise to her commanding officer, who wondered how his superiors could have known she was off station. Her crew then discovered that S-41 had missed an earlier message ordering her to a new station, leading her commanding officer to wonder if S-41 had been the subject of friendly fire attacks by Allied ships who had not expected a U.S. submarine at S-41′s location on 24–25 August 1942.[1]"
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