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RE: U-47 Ventilation duct
Posted by: Antonio Veiga ()
Date: October 22, 2000 10:46PM

Hi Greg

The original arrangement of flaks guns on both VIIA and early VIIB types was
a dismountable single 2cm mounting located on the after deckcasing just aft the conning tower.

This mounting was firstly thought as anti-surface weapon and secondly as a Flak gun.

Afterwards this mounting was thought mainly as a Flak gun, but for this use
such position had disadvantages, so it was resited (and fixed) to the after end of the conning tower, and for this, the small smoking deck (wintergarten) was enlarged into a circular platform of about 2m diameter.

This Flak disposition remained as this state until mid-1942 and was called
Turm 0.

Best Regards

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U-47 Ventilation duct Greg Dorfmeier 10/21/2000 08:50PM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct joe brandt 10/22/2000 03:03PM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct Greg Dorfmeier 10/22/2000 08:15PM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct Antonio Veiga 10/22/2000 10:46PM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct Antonio Veiga 10/22/2000 10:57PM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct joe brandt 10/22/2000 11:24PM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct Bill Dunn 10/23/2000 07:06AM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct Antonio Veiga 10/23/2000 06:43PM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct joe brandt 10/23/2000 07:54PM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct Antonio Veiga 10/23/2000 10:17PM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct/Flender-werke Greg Dorfmeier 10/23/2000 08:09PM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct/Flender-werke joe brandt 10/23/2000 09:23PM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct/Flender-werke joe brandt 10/23/2000 11:18PM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct/Flender-werke Greg Dorfmeier 10/24/2000 12:29AM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct/Flender-werke joe brandt 10/24/2000 01:03AM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct Jeff LaRue 10/25/2000 04:37PM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct Greg Dorfmeier 10/25/2000 07:27PM
RE: U-47 Ventilation duct Jeff LaRue 10/25/2000 08:30PM
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