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4 October 1943, Mediterranean
Posted by:
Theron P. Snell
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Date: March 07, 2001 03:00AM
I am researching Convoy UGS-18. It was attacked off Cape Tenes by German aircraft on 4 october 1943.
Circumstantial evidence suggests that there may also have been a U-boat present, or at least shadowing this convoy. The convoy had been warned earlier in the day that a U-boat was nearby. A commander of the Naval gun crew aboard one ship reported seeing a U-boat during the air attack. Another ship may have hit an underwater object that might have been a U-boat. Yet another commander reported that gun crews on nearby ships fired at what he took to be a submarine.
I am trying to identify what (or if) submarine may have been involved in the attack on UGS-18 or at the least may have been tracking the convoy.
Can someone cite sources I might use...or suggest what U-boat may have been there...and what evidence there is to support the idea.
Thank you.
Theron P. Snell
snell@rli-net.net
Circumstantial evidence suggests that there may also have been a U-boat present, or at least shadowing this convoy. The convoy had been warned earlier in the day that a U-boat was nearby. A commander of the Naval gun crew aboard one ship reported seeing a U-boat during the air attack. Another ship may have hit an underwater object that might have been a U-boat. Yet another commander reported that gun crews on nearby ships fired at what he took to be a submarine.
I am trying to identify what (or if) submarine may have been involved in the attack on UGS-18 or at the least may have been tracking the convoy.
Can someone cite sources I might use...or suggest what U-boat may have been there...and what evidence there is to support the idea.
Thank you.
Theron P. Snell
snell@rli-net.net
Subject | Written By | Posted |
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4 October 1943, Mediterranean | Theron P. Snell | 03/07/2001 03:00AM |
RE: 4 October 1943, Mediterranean | Anders Wingren | 03/07/2001 09:13PM |