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Harald Grosse, U-26
Posted by: Mark McShane ()
Date: April 23, 2009 09:38PM

Why was Grosse promoted posthumously to Fregattenkapitän? Was this common occurance, posthumous promotions?

Only came across this when looking at his page today, was looking into the sinking of the Dalaro. Interesting tally of ships he managed to rack up before being sunk himself. All except one were neutrals, none of them carrying contraband, sailing between neutral ports, sunk in locations that were not yet declared unrestricted areas of operation and Grosse did not seem to make any effort to inspect the ships paperwork.

In Dalaro's case a warning shot was fired, however as the ship stopped it was torpedoed.
Obviously we don't have his side of the story, but seems all the same.

Regards,

Mark

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Harald Grosse, U-26 Mark McShane 04/23/2009 09:38PM
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Re: Harald Grosse, U-26 paul tjader 04/29/2009 09:00AM
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