Talk:USS Gustafson

U857
UBoat.net found out, that USS Gustafson did NOT sunk U857 http://www.uboat.net/boats/u857.htm

84.73.137.129 (talk) 08:29, 1 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships says it did. There is more detail in Shadow Divers. The attack report says the hedgehogs hit something and exploded, after which there was a smell of oil but no debris. The war time assessment was something like "probable damage" upgraded after the war to "probable kill" (from memory, I don't have the book in front of me). In the absence of other evidence, I'm inclined to go with Gustafson. Kendall-K1 (talk) 16:03, 12 June 2012 (UTC)