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Re: U139
Posted by:
Michael Lowrey
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Date: March 30, 2009 05:06PM
Joe,
A Kriegstagebuch is a war diary. And certainly Spindler didn't have access to U 139's KTB when writing Handelskrieg V.
Robert Grant's presumption that U 139's KTB ended up in French hands is questionable. A KTB is not the same thing as a log -- and U-boats also kept logs.
The KTBs from a number of other boats on patrol very late in the war are missing as well. Oliver Lörscher has, however, been able to find most of these boats' logs at Freiburg, and we've been able to attribute out the previous unattributed late war sinkings as a result.
The British were also able to attribute the sinking of HMS ITCHEN to UC 44 based upon logs they recovered from UC 44 sank on her own mine.
I think it is more likely that the document the French ended up with are U 139's logs, as a copy seems to have stayed on board.
MPL
A Kriegstagebuch is a war diary. And certainly Spindler didn't have access to U 139's KTB when writing Handelskrieg V.
Robert Grant's presumption that U 139's KTB ended up in French hands is questionable. A KTB is not the same thing as a log -- and U-boats also kept logs.
The KTBs from a number of other boats on patrol very late in the war are missing as well. Oliver Lörscher has, however, been able to find most of these boats' logs at Freiburg, and we've been able to attribute out the previous unattributed late war sinkings as a result.
The British were also able to attribute the sinking of HMS ITCHEN to UC 44 based upon logs they recovered from UC 44 sank on her own mine.
I think it is more likely that the document the French ended up with are U 139's logs, as a copy seems to have stayed on board.
MPL
Subject | Written By | Posted |
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U139 | Josephbremez | 03/29/2009 03:21PM |
Re: U139 | Michael Lowrey | 03/29/2009 04:08PM |
Re: U139 | Josephbremez | 03/29/2009 05:27PM |
Re: U139 | Michael Lowrey | 03/30/2009 04:21AM |
Re: U139 | Josephbremez | 03/30/2009 04:09PM |
Re: U139 | Michael Lowrey | 03/30/2009 05:06PM |
Re: U139 | Yves D | 03/30/2009 07:12AM |
Re: U139 | Michael Lowrey | 03/30/2009 09:38AM |
Re: U139 | Yves D | 03/30/2009 11:52AM |
Re: U139 | Oliver Lörscher | 03/30/2009 08:59PM |
Re: U139 | Yves D | 03/31/2009 07:00AM |
Re: U139 | Oliver Lörscher | 03/31/2009 11:39AM |
Re: U139 | Simon S. | 03/31/2009 03:14PM |
Re: U139 | Michael Lowrey | 03/31/2009 03:29PM |
Re: U139 | Yves D | 03/31/2009 11:43AM |