U-121

It 1944 and Steele has joined the Germans in the invasion of Europe. Steele is put in command of a U-boat and its U-109 one of the new class of submarines made by Germany. Steele is on the dock when his crew arrives and they pile out of the trucks. They form ranks in front of their new command. Steele walk up and down the line looking at his crew.

Steele then gave them a speak, my name is Steele and I am your commander. I expect nothing less of prefect and with that I want you to get to now your new home. Yes sir and then the crew began to get on the sub while Steele counted them off. Lets see 1, 2, 3, a minute later 34, 35, 36 yes there all here. Then Steele went inside to keep the men n check.

He climbed down the ladder to the bridge and he look into the next room. He saw the men had already claimed their beds then he got on the speaker. “Men your stations I repeat men your stations were going to see what this baby can do”. Then men rushed to their stations with in three minutes the entire crew was ready to go. The lines were cut and Steele ordered the wheelman to take her out to sea.

Then when they were out to sea Steele got back on that speaker. Listen up boys were going to take this new girl through the sea trails so be prepared. Then as soon as he said that he orders to go down then a man pushed two buttons and they were going down. Were going to see how deep she can go boys Yes sir they replied then a man said were at 600 ft sir. Good deeper you hear me deeper yes sir were now at 1200 ft down sir.

Good lets see if she cam go down to 3500 ft hopeful she will hold. Sir were now at 1600, 2000, 2300, 2600, 3000 and dropping sir. She’s holding only 500 more ft you what is it now. It only at 3105 ft sir then they started to here the haul starting to bend. Sir I don’t know if she can hold any more, don’t say that she will hold.

Sir were now at 3500 ft then as he said it a pipe bust and water started to come in. Steele sigh and said you boys need to get that pipe patched lets go come on. One man grabbed a pipe clamp and him and another man pushed through the water and clamped the pipe. Steele then dragged his hand through his hair got the water out. Good job boys all right take us up, yes sir right away then they began to rise.

Then the radar man clutched his headphones, sir hold I got something over here. What is, it looks like a destroyer sir, ok what depth are we at. We are at 2000 ft sir, all right down periscope then Steele looks through the scope. O boy guess you boys get to fire on a live target. We got a Royal Navy destroyer in front of us then Steele walked over to the phone.

He pushed the button that said torpedo room and waited then the torpedo chief answered the phone. Yes sir what is it, Load tubes 1 and 2 and get ready to fire, yes sir. Steele hangs up and headed back to the periscope and then looked at the target. Ok the target is about 200 to 230 yards he tells the torpedo chief to get ready to fire. Ready, aim, FIRE 1 then the sub jolted and the torpedo was off FIRE 2 and then the second torpedo was off.

Then the sub fell quiet and the men waited for the torpedo to hit its target. Steele watched his stop watch then he herd the torpedo’s hit he then went to the periscope. He scanned the sea and he saw the sinking ship the crew cheered. Then Steele got on the seeker and said lets go home boys we’ve earned are kill for today. Then the wheelman turned hard and they were off for Germany.

With in hours they were back at the dock repairing the broken pipe. Steele is kicking back and relaxing when an alarm goes off and then he hears someone yell fighters. Steele jumps up and yells at his crew to get inside. Get the hell inside unless you want to be blown to hell. The crew ran to get into cover a group of men were caught in the open.

An American fighter came down and unloaded on the men. Steele say them disappear in a cloud of red mist then when mist cleared. He saw the men’s arms and legs torn apart from the body’s Steele then got up and ran to his sub. Then two bombs hit the sub and Steele ran the other way. Then he saw a wounded sailor and ran to help he saw the sailors leg had been blown off.

Steele grabbed him and through him over his shoulders and carried him to house and they crawled under it. Steele saw his man being killed and his sub was on fire. Then finally the fighter’s left and the men came out from the hiding places. Steele dragged the wound sailor out and a medic came by and helped the man. Steele walked toward his sub he saw the bodies of the men who where not lucky then he saw his sub.

The sub was a blazing wreck two bomb holes were in the deck the scanning tower was full of holes. Then Steele went inside he climbed down what was left of the ladder to the bridge. Inside it wasn’t as bad but it was still going to need repair then he headed to he engine room. He was met by the men trying to get the fires out in the room he came up to one of them. What’s the damage here, well the engines are going to need work that’s it for down here.

With that Steele headed to the torpedo room to see what the damage was. He entered the room to see a hole from a bomb but where was the bomb. Then Steele looked down and got his answer the bomb had not blown. Then another sailor walked in and saw the bomb and froze he slowly came up to Steele. Sir what should we do, well hears what I want you to do get the men tell them to get some rope.

Then with in minutes a group of men came in they saw the bomb and then they went to Steele. Steele told them to tie the rope to the bomb and then head up and then he would throw the rope to them and then they would pull it out. Then Steele came top side and came up to the men, Well push it over, what sir, I said push it over, yes sir. The men began to push the bomb to the side then it went over the bomb splashed into the water.

Then a second later the bomb went off water cover the men and the sub. Steele turn to the group of men, Well that’s out of the way now I want repairs started now. The men got to work to repair there damaged sub Steele went to his Commander. He walked in and saw the man sitting at the desk Steele then put a list down on his desk. His command look surprised, what is this Steele, it’s a list of thing I need to repair me sub.

You got a lot here but I think I can get it for you, Thanks sir then Steele left. Then four days later Steele and his crew had fixed as much damage as they could with out the supplies they needed. Then three trucks pulled up then Steele went over to see what it was. A man stepped out of one of the tucks and walked up to Steele and put a clipboard in front of him. Can you please sign at the bottom of this please, Sure but what is this, and these are the parts and supplies you ordered.

Steele smiled and signed the paper and told his crew to unload the supplies and get to work. Then in a week and a half the sub was repaired and Steele and he’s crew were ready for action. Then one day Steele commander came out and handed him his orders. Steele read over the piece of paper and it said his mission was to sink cargo ship. Steele yelled to his crew to get ready to cast off the men began going into the sub then Steele went in.

Steele climbed down the ladder and then told the wheelman to head toward Torpedo Alley. Steele then got on the phone and called the engine room the chief engineer picked up. Yes sir what do you need, I want you to get this baby to go as fast as she can, Yes sir. The chief engineer hangs up and takes out a bottle of rum and took a drink and then opened the full tank and put it in. What are doing that for, rum gets 10 more knots out of this then the sub was sailing through the water at 31 knots.

Then a half hour later the radar man picked up a convey of four enemy war ships. Sir I’m picking up four ships and their all Heavy Cruisers, All right how many torpedos’ do we have? We have around twenty sir ten in the torpedo room and ten in the storage room. Ok target the first cruiser, yes sir then the men begin to target the cruiser then they have it targeted. Sir we have it targeted, ok here what were going to do were going to head down the line of cruisers.

What do you mean sir, were going to go from one to the other so get ready, yes sir. Then Steele ordered tubes one and two to fire with in seconds the torpedos were off. Then Steele ordered to move to the next cruiser then tubes three and four fire. The four torpedo’s hit their targets and Steele look through the periscope and the cruiser are going under. Then the tubes are reloaded and Steele sees his last two targets but this two aren’t flying the British navy flag.

They were flying the U.S flag but Steele ordered the tubes to be fired at them he then looks through his scope. He sees that his torpedo’s hit and the U.S ship are going down but then he turns the scope. He’s sees that there are five destroyers almost on top of him he orders a fast dive. U-109 goes under fast but then an