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An underrated success
Posted by: Jacob Wake ()
Date: February 06, 2004 10:55AM

<HTML>I read in John Terraine's book 'Business in great waters' last night about an interesting event that happened in early january 1943. Unfortunately the book did not go into too much further detail, hence me writing here.
In the first couple of days of the year, a pack of u-boats scored a huge victory: some u-boat encountered a convoy of Allied tankers (which was escorted by three corvettes and a destoyer) and proceeded to home other boats in on the convoy. When more u-boats arrived seven out of the nine tankers in the convoy were sunk! This was truly an amazing result for the U-boats, yet I have never heard anything about it before yesterday. General Von Arnim (the German commander in North Africa at that stage) even sent a personal telegram of congratulations to Donitz. Can anyone please shed some more light on this amazing convoy engagement?

Thanks,
JW</HTML>

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An underrated success Jacob Wake 02/06/2004 10:55AM
Re: An underrated success Roland Berr 02/06/2004 11:53AM
Re: An underrated success Rainer Kolbicz 02/07/2004 11:12AM
Re: An underrated success Woody 02/07/2004 05:02AM
Re: An underrated success James Oglethorpe 02/07/2004 03:18PM


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