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The following story appears courtesy of and with thanks to Captain Walker and Mike Kemble

As soon as the Boss was satisfied we went on our way again to a fresh incident. From snatches of intercepted signals we gathered that Kite had picked up a second U Boat at the same time as our own, which with the Magpie to help, she had been hammering ever since. The enemy had proved to be a tougher, more wily, opponent than the other two, so that with all their patience and perseverance had not managed to hurt her much, although she had not succeeded in getting away. We sped along at a brisk pace to join the struggle, a matter of 30 miles away and, on arrival, I was put on patrol to keep the Ring, while the Boss mixed it with the others in the middle. After all the drama of the night, this was a welcome spell of quiet, though it was good to keep our leader going at it with undiminished vigour. There was some hard slogging still for him to do, with this agile customer side stepping attack after attack. The Kite had to be pulled out of the struggle to join me as ring keeper because she was practically out of depth charges, then at last, the end came. Our scientists ashore may not have been very pleased at the way it was done, but that is a technical joke not worth telling here. Sufficient to say that Magpie was duly blooded and the Groups 3rd victim within 15 hours was safely gathered in.

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