Hello again Barrie,

There is a great photo of U-407, taken at the dock of her base at Salamis, Greece, I would guess, at this link:

[silent-hunter-addict.com]

It shows the snorkel tube on the right of the tower whose wake while U-407 was running submerged on her Diesels was detected by HMS Garland which immediately dropped Hedgehog charges on it.

"Britannia rules the waves" (or, as some anti-First Sea Lord Winston Churchill Germans used to say in both World Wars, "Britannia waives the rules"). But who cares now that all of this brutal and ultimately pointless and self-destructive killing is over never to be repeated again.

With cheers from me and tata from my Kentish maiden wife of 51 years (she actually saw and heard the doodlebugs on their way to London whilst I saw and heard the US B-17s on their way to Berlin) whose father used to work as a hush-hush electrical and communcations engineer for the RAF in WWII,

Gert