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Re: C/333 Catalina attack on 17/05/1944 - U-241 or U-240 (18th)?
Posted by: Rainer ()
Date: July 12, 2015 08:40AM

Hi Lorenzo

Several sources credit C/333 with sinking U-240, including "U-boat versus Aircraft" by Franks/Zimmerman, but there is no evidence to support this. The U-boat was en route from Bergen to Narvik together with U-668, U-742 and U-965. The group was ordered to carry out a sweep off western Norway en route, in an area where V/330 carried out its attack on 16 May 1944 and was initially credited with sinking U-240 until it was discovered that U-668 had been the target. I concur with Axel Niestlé that there is currently no known explanation for the loss of U-240.

The attack of C/333 was carried out too far to the southwest of the area where U-240 was supposed to be, but U-241 and U-857 were there and as the latter did not mention an attack in its war diary the attack must have been directed against U-241, which did not report it as it was sunk by another air attack a few hours later.

We used the time 17/2221 as mentioned by Franks/Zimmerman for the attack description of C/333, but I corrected this now to 18/0007.

Best regards
Rainer

Crew member of uboat.net

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C/333 Catalina attack on 17/05/1944 - U-241 or U-240 (18th)? Lorenzo 07/11/2015 04:42PM
Re: C/333 Catalina attack on 17/05/1944 - U-241 or U-240 (18th)? Rainer 07/12/2015 08:40AM
Re: C/333 Catalina attack on 17/05/1944 - U-241 or U-240 (18th)? Lorenzo 07/13/2015 08:19AM
Re: C/333 Catalina attack on 17/05/1944 - U-241 or U-240 (18th)? Lorenzo 07/13/2015 10:22AM
Re: C/333 Catalina attack on 17/05/1944 - U-241 or U-240 (18th)? Rainer 07/13/2015 03:52PM
Re: C/333 Catalina attack on 17/05/1944 - U-241 or U-240 (18th)? Lorenzo 07/15/2015 01:52PM
Re: C/333 Catalina attack on 17/05/1944 - U-241 or U-240 (18th)? t-geronimo 07/16/2015 05:59PM
Re: C/333 Catalina attack on 17/05/1944 - U-241 or U-240 (18th)? Lorenzo 07/18/2015 12:28PM
Re: C/333 Catalina attack on 17/05/1944 - U-241 or U-240 (18th)? vito 07/17/2015 10:00AM
Re: C/333 Catalina attack on 17/05/1944 - U-241 or U-240 (18th)? Lorenzo 07/18/2015 12:30PM


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