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Re: US Navy Oilers
Posted by: Eric ()
Date: August 09, 2006 02:00PM

All,

One of the U-boats I've been researching came very close to sinking the Kennebec Class Fleet Oiler USS Winooski II (AO-38)supporting the landings off Fedahla Morocco for Operation Torch.

U-173 penetrated the destroyer screen and fired a spread of torpedoes at the anchored fleet.

It was a good shot by Schweichel, hitting Winooski just abaft of the bridge in the number 6 tank, but luckily for Winooski that tank had no fuel and was ballasted with sea-water.

U-173 was originally supposed to patrol the Caribbean and was diverted to respond to the invasion. Had she been equipped with magnetic detonators rather than contact, Winooski may have suffered a different fate (along with the destroyer Hambleton).

Eric

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US Navy Oilers singwood 08/08/2006 07:31PM
Re: US Navy Oilers John E MacInnes 08/08/2006 09:36PM
Re: US Navy Oilers John E MacInnes 08/08/2006 09:41PM
Re: US Navy Oilers ROBERT M. 08/08/2006 10:49PM
Re: US Navy Oilers Eric 08/09/2006 02:00PM


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