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2 U-boats sunk in 22 minutes
Posted by:
JJ
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Date: May 04, 2001 03:49AM
<HTML>Kind of an interesting story. Ran in an elderly gent, 79 years old, who piloted a Liberator as a Canadian in the RAF in WWII. He went on to say that he did alot of air patrol out of Lands End England looking for U-Boats in the Atlantic. He then went on to say that holds the record for having sunk 2 U-Boats in 22 minutes in and around the English Channel on D-Day. Says his Liberator carried 12 depth charges. Dropped 6 on the first one and another 6 on the other. He was aware that one of the u-boats had 44 survivors but did not know about how many survived the other. I had to check on the U-boat net to see if there was some like this and sure enough....U-373 and U441 were sunk twenty minutes apart on June 8th, 1944, by the same Liberator Bomber....which is obviously the incident this chap is speaking of. </HTML>
Subject | Written By | Posted |
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2 U-boats sunk in 22 minutes | JJ | 05/04/2001 03:49AM |
RE: 2 U-boats sunk in 22 minutes | Ragnar J. Ragnarsson | 05/04/2001 10:20AM |
RE: 2 U-boats sunk in 22 minutes | JJ | 05/04/2001 04:02PM |
RE: 2 U-boats sunk in 22 minutes | Martin | 05/05/2001 12:46AM |
RE: 2 U-boats sunk in 22 minutes | Joe Brennan | 05/05/2001 02:22AM |
RE: 2 U-boats sunk in 22 minutes | John James JJ | 05/05/2001 01:49PM |
RE: 2 U-boats sunk in 22 minutes | Joe Brennan | 05/05/2001 10:08PM |