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Re: U-boats heading for japan
Posted by: Mutsu ()
Date: December 12, 2002 12:39AM

Hi Charles,
U-234 did indeed sail very late in the war for Japan carrying, among other cargo, a number of cases of uranium oxide, destined for the Japanese army atomic bomb program, but surrendered in mid-Atlantic to a US DE following the end of the war. The 2 Japanese officers accompanying the shipment committed suicide rather than surrender.
This was not the first such shipment, there were several prior, but none reached its intended destination, the Japanese I-boats or German U-boote carrying the material failed to reach the intended destination due to ULTRA keeping the Allies informed of their cargo & routing, allowing ASW forces to intercept & sink the lot.
HTH, Mutsu

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Re: U-boats heading for japan ROBERT M. 12/13/2002 03:53AM
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