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 U-Boat Warby Kutta, Timothy J.1998, Squadron/Signal Publications ISBN 0897473957 Paperback, 64 pages A general overview of the U-boat war plagued by many silly mistakes. See review.  Purchase information: (info) |
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| Page | Mistake | Correction |
| 13 | 13:Central photo of a WWI german u-boat is presented as U-35 a type VIIA U-Boat 14:U-81 in the photo is presented U-8 29:Again a illustration of a strange german u-boat is presented as U-35 "a type VIIA U-boat" Backcover: U505 appears in the illustration with her number painted in the conning tower. Maybe correct but the caption reads: "(Above)U-505 a type VIIC(sic) U-boat,cruises on the surface shortly BEFORE her capture..." | 13:no comments 14:no comments 29:the hull is of a type VIIA u-boat, but the conning tower is of a WWI german u-boat Backcover: a)U505 was type IXC b)no u-boats had her number painted in during wartime. After captured the americans painted her number in the conning tower. |
| 15 | U-29 sank the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous on 17 Sept, 1940. | But in reality this was one year earlier, 17 Sept, 1939. |
| 16 | Caption text: ".. U-102 left Lorient on its last patrol ..." | This was in fact her only patrol. |
| 23 | "the crew of U-116, a Type IXB boat ...". | She was of course a type XB, a very different boat. |
| 30 | U-751 is said be a "type VIIIC boat". | She was of type VIIC. |
| 33 | U-103 is said to have been lost in January 1944. | See her real fate here. |
| 33 | U-40 "survived 67 months of active service before being lost in October 1944". | She was lost after roughly one-month of active combat on 13 Oct, 1939. |
| 34 | U-172 is shown using its 88mm deck gun. | Her real deck gun was of course 105mm. |
| 49 | U-614 is said to have been blown up in drydock at St. Nazaire on 29 July, 1943. | Check her real fate here. |
| 57 | Here are numerous references to how the XXI and XXIII Elektro boats joined in on the attack on the British Isles in February 1945. Not only that but U-2511 under Korvkpt. Adalbert Schnee is reported to have "scored well during the patrol sinking 10 merchant ships totalling 45,000 tons". | Only 2 XXI boats left for patrol, both in the last few days of war with no successes scored since they did not reach their operational areas. |
| 57 | Kutta states that at the end of the war U-boats had sunk no less than 4600 merchant ships for a total of 21 million tons. | If this had been true the U-boats might have won. However, U-boats "only" sank around 2,900 ships with for a total of 14.2 million tons with another 300 ships damaged. The former figure seems to be the total figure of lost shipping to all causes in the war. |
| 57 | U-2513 is claimed to be a type IXD boat. | She was of course a Type XXI boat. |
| 61 | U-711 is reported to have attacked the Russian battleship Arkhangelsk (ex. British HMS Royal Sovereign) during the fall of 1941. | This attack occured 3 years later, on 23 August, 1944. U-711 had not even been commissioned during the fall of 1941. |
| 66 | On the back cover the U-505 is reported to be a type VIIC boat. Not only that but she is seen "before her capture" proudly displaying "U-505" on its conning tower. | She was of course a type IXC - a much bigger boat. And no U-boat in action ever displayed its numbers - for obvious intelligence reasons. |
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