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1998

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  16:46 - Added 2 fine Miltary sites to the list. Das Reich and Panzer Lehr, both dedicated to German armour.

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  10:10 - Added 4 new technology pages to the Fighting the U-boats section. We'll open it around Feb 1 if all goes as planned.



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  10:09 - Greatly expanded the personal profiles of
  Krvkpt. Herbert Schultze of U-48
  He is also our Commander of the Week.



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  10:09 - Added the Knights Cross winners
  Kptlt. Ulrich Folkers of U-125 and
  Kptlt. Hans Heidtmann of U-559
  We now have over 122 U-boat personnel files.



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  01:24 - Added 2 images of the U-701 to the Diving section of the Gallery.

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  10:10 - Added the long-awaited 5-page section on the exciting German Elektro boats (type XXI and its smaller sister, type XXIII).



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  10:10 - Added the Knights Cross winners
  Kptlt. Hans-Joachim Förster of U-480 and
  KptzS. Kurt Dobratz of U-1232
  We now have over 120 U-boat personnel files.



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  01:24 - Added a page on U-74 and the Bismarck tragedy to the History section.

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  10:11 - Updated the fates for U-50 and U-66.

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  10:11 - Added the Knights Cross winner
  OStrm. Karl Jäckel of U-907
  We now have over 118 U-boat personnel files.



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  01:24 - Updated two pages about the U-Boot Archiv in Cuxhaven, Germany.

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  10:12 - Added 11 English language books. We now list over 550 books.



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  10:12 - Updated the career page of
  Kptlt. Günther Hessler of U-107 fame.
  He is also our Commander of the Week.



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  10:12 - Added the Knights Cross winner
  Oblt. Heinz Sieder of U-984
  We now have over 117 U-boat personnel files.

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  10:13 - Added the Knights Cross winner
  Kptlt. Karl-Heinz Marbach of U-953
  We now have over 116 U-boat personnel fi



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  10:13 - Updated the career page of
  Kptlt. Engelbert Endrass of U-46 and U-567 fame.
  He is also our Commander of the Week.

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  10:13 - Added The Scholar's Bookshelf to the list sources available to obtain U-boat related books.



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  10:13 - Added two awards and honors that uboat.net has received in the last days. Including a very nice review by Dr. Webster

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  10:14 - Added a note about U-552's sinking of USS Reuben James on 31 Oct, 1941. This was the first US Navy loss in the War.

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  10:14 - Added 4 items to the Glossay page: VO, II LI, Kimm and Dreisternemeldung.



• 
  10:14 - In an attempt to clean up the final 1997 letters remaining I answered some 50 letters today.

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  10:17 - Added a Gallery set for U 2540 / Wilhelm Bauer at Bremerhaven, Germany. 13 colour photos.



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  10:15 - Updated the technical page for type XXI boats.



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  10:15 - Added a Gallery set for Diving Images. Currently we only have 3 photos of U-352.



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  01:24 - Updated the German booklist by adding 31 books, including a page with 10 of the best books on the U-boats of World War One. Now we have over 540 books in our files.