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1997

• 
  16:19 - Updated the personal profile for
  Frgkpt. Heinrich Liebe of U-37 fame
  He is our commander of the week.

• 
  16:20 - Added links to enable people to compare the sinkings of WWI and WWII top German U-boat commanders.



• 
  16:20 - Updated the Midget submarines Today page. Another Seehund in Cuxhaven has been confirmed and yet another might be in Wilhelmshaven.



• 
  16:19 - Das Boot in Europe
  Does anyone know for sure when the new version of the Das Boot movie will be released in Europe? If you do, please contact me so I can report it.



• 
  16:19 - Added little entry to the News & Events page about a Molch modget boat that seems to have been located out of Norway.



• 
  16:19 - Updated the page for U-869 which just *might* be the mysterious U-Who boat out of the US East Coast.



• 
  01:24 - Greatly updated the Histories section with several new links to stories already in the site but they might have been too hard to find.

• 
  16:21 - Added a personal page for the Knights Cross winner
  OStrm. Horst Hofmann (not a commander)



• 
  16:20 - Updated the personal page for
  KrvKpt. Carl Emmermann of U-172 fame.
  He is also our Commander of the week.

• 
  01:24 - Added a nerw section called Histories that will deal with many U-boat related historical events and narratives in the future. We open it with two sets of pages:

  U-boats in World War One. This is a 8 page section that provides a comprehensive account of the U-boat war in the first World War.

  Post War U-boat events. This page covers the events taking place after WWII, such as former U-boats in service for other nations, U-boats discovered by divers and so on.

• 
  16:22 - Greatly improved the personal profile for FrgKpt. Erich Topp, the 3rd highest scoring U-boat commander, most famous for his Red Devil boat, U-552. Topp is also our commander of the week.

• 
  16:22 - Added U-boat commander Profile for
  Kptlt. Hermann Rasch of U-106 and
  We now have over 102 U-boat personnel files.



• 
  01:18 - Updated the U-boat profiles for boats
  UC-1, UC-2 (technical info)
  U-506 and U-619 (revised fate).

• 
  16:22 - Added 2 U-boat commander Profiles
  Kptlt. Günther Pulst of U-978 (Knights Cross) and
  Oblt. Amelung von Varendorff of U-213 and
  We now have over 101 U-boat personnel files.

• 
  16:23 - Added Strelow to the page about U-boat Aces with over 50,000 tons sunk.



• 
  16:23 - Greatly improved the page for FrgKpt. Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock. Now the bio includes 4 photos, including one of him and the actor from Das Boot who played the commander there. Willenbrock is also our Commander of the Week starting today.



• 
  16:23 - Added 3 Knights Cross winners
  Krvkpt. Siegfried Strelow of U-435 and
  Krvkpt. Herbert Schneider of U-435 and
  Kptlt. Reinhard König (an engineer)
  We now have over 99 U-boat personnel files.

• 
  16:26 - Fixed the map for the Cape Hatteras area, thanks to Stephen for the improved map.



• 
  16:26 - Fixed a rather nasty bug on the Cape Verde map page. Thanks to Mats for the report on this one.



• 
  16:26 - Fixed smal bugs on profiles for U-boats
  U-132, U-188, U-205, U-354 (revised fate), U-362, U-372, U-374, U-379, U-389, U-393, U-407 and U-416.
  Most were rather innocent typos unless otherwise noted.



• 
  16:24 - Updated the profiles for U-boats
  U-77, U-83, U-134, U-435, U-442, U-447, U-566, U-594, U-755 and U-1195.



• 
  16:23 - Added 4 Knights Cross winners
  Krvkpt. Max-Martin Teichert of U-456 and
  Krvkpt. Claus Korth of U-57 and U-93 and
  Kptlt. Friedrich Markworth of U-66 and
  StoMasch. Heinrich Dammeier (not a commander)
  We now have over 96 U-boat personnel files.