The What's New Archive
February 1997
1997
22 February
14:03 - Introduced a new page on the PQ-17 Convoy Disaster. This is the first in a long series of Convoy Battle and U-boat Operations pages in development.
14:04 - Added a nice bio page on Eberhard Godt who was known as the "godfather". He was Dönitz's closest assistant in tactical command of the U-boats within BdU. Also added a page on BdU itself.
14:05 - Bug hunting. The following pages have changed (some very slightly): 21st Flotilla, 24th Flotilla, U-6, U-659, U-1204, U-152 and U-143.
14:04 - Greatly improved the bio page of Frgkpt. Klaus Scholtz, one of the highest scoring Ace in tons.
01:24 - Added a major new section to the The Men pages. This new section is called Kriegsmarine Ranks and covers in details all the relevant officer ranks found in U-Web. These new pages contain over 20 photos.
14:07 - Added two new U-boat men biographies for the Knights Cross winners Peter Erich Cremer, and Rudolf Mühlbauer. Now 40 U-boat men have their own pages here.
01:24 - Improved most of the U-boats types pages, now most of the pages explain more about the class and how it was derived from some of the previous types.
14:08 - Added three new U-boat commander biographies for the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves winners Hans-Günther Lange, Otto von Bülow and Rolf Thomsen. Now 38 U-boat men have their own pages here.
01:24 - Improved several pages, most notably The Men and The Boats which have been mostly rewritten and should be much better.
In addition to the 2 entries shown here above we made some 7 additions or changes in our databases during February 1997.


