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Berühmte Schiffe des Zweiten Weltkrieges
Ellis, Chris

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Allied Warships

Check out our new extensive section on all the Allied Warships during WWII in all theatres of the war.

Over 21,000 ships

1998

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  19:37 - Updated the fate on U-411's profile page. Also fixed the position of the U-133 and U-557 losses.



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  19:37 - Added the Knights Cross winner
  KrvKpt. Karl-Heinz Moehle commander of U-123
  We now have over 130 U-boat personnel files.



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  19:36 - Fighting the U-boats, update
  Added a page on the Royal Australian Navy.



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  19:36 - Fighting the U-boats, update
  Added a 3-page set on the Royal Canadian Navy. Includes its victories and losses.



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  01:24 - Added 8 new books (5 english, 2 Italian and one Dutch) to the booklist.

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  19:39 - Added the Knights Cross winners
  Kptlt. Helmut Rosenbaum commander of U-73 and
  StOstrm. Heinrich Petersen Obersteurmann of U-99
  We now have over 129 U-boat personnel files.



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  19:39 - Fighting the U-boats, update
  Added an introductory page on the Lend-Lease programme.



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  19:38 - Fighting the U-boats, update
  Added pages on Allied corvettes and sloops.



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  19:38 - Added a major entry to the history pages. This is a complete chapter from the book Silent Hunters (see review) that deals with Heinz Eck of U-852 and his involvement in the so called Peleus incident.

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  19:41 - Updated the profile for 3 U-boats i.e. the fate part as we had incorrect aircraft types;
  U-420 Sunderland -> Liberator
  U-590 Mariner -> Catalina
  U-662 none mentioned -> Catalina



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  19:40 - Added 2 new glossary terms;
  Blechkoller and Kommissbrot.



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  19:40 - Added a nice description of the German U-boat front clasp.



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  19:40 - Fighting the U-boats, update
  Added a page on Allied destoyers. This page is only a draft of things to come though.



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  19:39 - Fighting the U-boats, update
  Added 4 pages on 4 Destroyer escort classes
  (Edsall, Evarts, Buckley and John C. Butler).



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  19:39 - Added a review for Theodore P. Savas' excellent
  Silent Hunters
  German U-boat Commanders of World War II.

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  19:41 - Added a little site map to better illustrate how to navigate the web. It's just a draft and will be improved later on.

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  19:42 - Added a note about how the Keroman base in Lorient might be sold and scrapped.



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  19:42 - Added the Knights Cross winners
  Kptlt. Heinrich Schroeteler of U-667 and U-1023
  Kptlt. Philipp Lichtenberg (LI on U-96 and U-37)
  We now have over 127 U-boat personnel files.

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  19:42 - Updated the fates of the following U-boat profiles; U-26 and U-44.

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  19:43 - Corrected one point with the U-581 profile page, namely the fate and career of Ltn. Walter Sitek who we previously reported as being killed in action.



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  19:43 - Created a page covering all the laid-down but incomplete German U-boats. This adds another 135 profile pages to the site.



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  01:24 - Updated all the Shipyard pages to match the new templates above. The new versions should be easier to read.

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  19:43 - Corrected and updated a few minor things in the Glossary.



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  19:43 - Updated the profile fate for U-623.

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  19:44 - Updated the profile for U-560. Now it includes explanation rarely seen about its fate and how it was not sunk during the war.



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  19:44 - Added the Knights Cross winner
  Krvkpt. Günther Kuhnke of U-125 and U-853
  We now have over 125 U-boat personnel files.

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  19:44 - Updated the profile for U-581. Now includes more detailed and corrected information about its sinking.