The What's New Archive
February 1997
1997
22 February
14:03 - Introduced a new page on the PQ-17 Convoy Disaster. This is the first in a long series of Convoy Battle and U-boat Operations pages in development.
14:04 - Added a nice bio page on Eberhard Godt who was known as the "godfather". He was Dönitz's closest assistant in tactical command of the U-boats within BdU. Also added a page on BdU itself.
14:05 - Bug hunting. The following pages have changed (some very slightly): 21st Flotilla, 24th Flotilla, U-6, U-659, U-1204, U-152 and U-143.
14:04 - Greatly improved the bio page of Frgkpt. Klaus Scholtz, one of the highest scoring Ace in tons.
01:24 - Added a major new section to the The Men pages. This new section is called Kriegsmarine Ranks and covers in details all the relevant officer ranks found in U-Web. These new pages contain over 20 photos.
14:07 - Added two new U-boat men biographies for the Knights Cross winners Peter Erich Cremer, and Rudolf Mühlbauer. Now 40 U-boat men have their own pages here.
01:24 - Improved most of the U-boats types pages, now most of the pages explain more about the class and how it was derived from some of the previous types.
14:08 - Added three new U-boat commander biographies for the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves winners Hans-Günther Lange, Otto von Bülow and Rolf Thomsen. Now 38 U-boat men have their own pages here.
01:24 - Improved several pages, most notably The Men and The Boats which have been mostly rewritten and should be much better.
In addition to the items shown here above we made some 7 additions or changes in our databases during February 1997.