uboat.net

"Gudmundur Helgason's U-boat Web pages are more than jolly good, they are excellent. He does not fall into the common trap of reproducing information which is definitely known to be wrong.

Much of the information is interesting and accurate. What is more, there is a lot of information which one is NOT likely to find in books. In fact some of his information is quite unique and I do NOT know where else one could find it. (Unless, of course, one goes back to original sources or to the U-boat Archive.)

Obviously any collection of information of such vast magnitude is going to attract mistakes, but the interesting point about Gudmundur Helgason's pages is that he has taken the trouble to check much of the information. The usual fairy tales which have been made up after the war and perpetuated by a number of disgusting authors and groups are missing from Gudmundur's pages.

The information is refreshingly good, interesting, useful and goes to considerable depths. I have enjoyed browsing the pages and recommend them to anyone."
  

Jak P. Mallmann Showell
 author of U-boats under the Swastika and
 U-b
  England

10 Oct 1999
Sir....I wish to commend you and your staff for constructing an excellent World War Two historic source of information.

I am a retired US serviceman and a volunteer assisting educators in our schools, I am using your site and several others for classroom work. In fact, in two class'es one is building ship models from the Atlantic and another class is constructing WW2 in the Pacific using ship models that were involved in the Battle of Midway. These kids are really keyed up about WW2 history.....I'm sure they will remember these class'es.

I am 76 years old and would have a hell've time convincing my students about the events in WW2 if it were not for people like you constructing such a fine data-base of information.

Thank you.
  Ed Fox
  USA

7 Sep 1997
As a ex British submariner I found this web site wonderful to read and navigate, I only wish there was something about British boats on the net. Thanks to all who made this great site.
  Colin Mears
  UK

25 Nov 2002
The greatest site about U-boats. Excellent! Thank you for the information.
  Nikolaos Sakellariou
  Greece

11 Jul 1999
I am an avid fan/follower of WWII facts, stories and recovery of armaments/artifacts. About two years ago I had been searching the internet for information on u-boots and I came to your site and was quite impressed by your work . Now, I decided to investigate again and was glad to rediscover your tremendous site. It is always a pleasure to encounter web sites such as yours that demonstrate the incredible amount of data available on the Internet. Once again I would like to thank you for a great job and hope to see more of it. If you were to charge a fee to gain access to your data I would gladly be in favour, as this would probably be only a minor recompense for the very time consuming and exhausting work you have performed. Thanks again.
  Louis Pico