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H47??
Posted by: Peter ()
Date: August 13, 2001 09:56AM

<HTML>Hi

I posted this a while back and nobody has been able to answer-perhaps it should be included in one of the Trivias? Why would a U-boat have H47 on the conning tower? Deception (Some of the u-boats operating off Mozambique were mistaken for Japanese boats) or something else?

One of the Alcoa Pathfinder\'s survivors (sunk by U-181 off Mozambique in November 1942) noted that they were questioned by Luth and that the boat displayed a large H47 on the conning tower. I have looked in U-boat Emblems by Hogel and am unable to find this series of letters/numbers. Anybody know?

Please help
PK</HTML>

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Subject Written By Posted
H47?? Peter 08/13/2001 09:56AM
RE: H47?? Capt. George W. Duffy 08/13/2001 11:53AM
RE: H47/H49? Peter 08/15/2001 03:48AM
RE: H47/H49? Capt. George W. Duffy 08/15/2001 01:01PM
RE: H47/H49? Peter 08/17/2001 04:28PM
RE: H47?? Ken Dunn 08/13/2001 06:06PM


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