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Neutral shipping losses
Posted by: Visje ()
Date: March 25, 2001 12:45PM

<HTML>I\'ve been following the \"Ships hit on this day\" page for some time now, trying to add as much missing info as I can find. While viewing, I can\'t help but to wonder why there are so many neutrals ( neutral in the period September 1939 - April/May 1940 ) among the U-boat victims. I have read a great deal about Dutch merchant losses, and it shows that on one hand, some U-commanders operated according to the blokkade-regulations, while others were \"trigger-happy\", in effect torpedoing every ship in sight, even though most were clearly marked as neutral. I am aware of an order to sink all TANKERS in the France-Britain area, but I am unaware of any order to do the same with other ships. Even more surprising, Donitz never or rarely commented on sinking clearly marked neutrals. Comments ?</HTML>

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Neutral shipping losses Visje 03/25/2001 12:45PM
RE: Neutral shipping losses Ken Dunn 03/25/2001 02:43PM
RE: Neutral shipping losses Visje 03/25/2001 04:26PM
RE: Neutral shipping losses Ken Dunn 03/25/2001 10:53PM
RE: Neutral shipping losses Visje 03/27/2001 08:02AM
RE: Neutral shipping losses Rainer Kolbicz 03/26/2001 07:45PM
RE: Neutral shipping losses kpp 03/26/2001 09:46PM
RE: Neutral shipping losses Roy Prince 03/26/2001 11:44PM
RE: Neutral shipping losses Visje 03/27/2001 06:11AM
RE: Neutral shipping losses Rainer Kolbicz 03/27/2001 09:45AM
RE: Neutral shipping losses Rainer Kolbicz 03/27/2001 10:06AM
RE: Neutral shipping losses Jan-Olof 03/27/2001 04:24PM
RE: Neutral shipping losses Antonio Veiga 03/25/2001 07:10PM


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