Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "USS Roper and the U-85" video.

Fear of U-Boat attacks while attempting rescues was widespread during both world wars. The first losses for the British Royal Navy involved two cruisers being sunk by torpedoes from a German U-Boat while stopping to pick up survivors from the first cruiser to be hit. That sets the tone. Why risk your life to help those who's comrades were quite happy to use survivors as bait when those survivors are on the same side as the U-Boat crew. As for attacking a possible U-Boat while survivors are near the attack point, what else can you do. If you do not make sure it is no longer a threat then you run the risk of it escaping and killing others. In which case those deaths are on you because you failed to stop the enemy.
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