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Re: Information request U-boat attack on Aruba
Posted by: Chris van der Vaart ()
Date: October 09, 2002 03:44PM

<HTML>Hi Guido,

Thanks for the information, I just got the passage out of the book e-mailed to me by another U-boat.net user. And concerning the alleged marksmanship of the U-156 crew&#8230; Having seen the size of the refinery (which was the biggest in the world at that time I think it would have been harder for them to miss the thing&#8230;:-)

Regards,

Chris

Guido wrote:
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> the book you are lookinf for is the U-boat war in the
> Caribbean, but I don't remember the author. If I'm not
> mistaken, after the initial first attack hartenstein withdraw
> to take care of the wounded, then sawed off the blasted
> portion of the gun and closed in for a secon time. I believe
> he managed to fire four times befor attracting fire himself,
> so left the scene for good. The attack had no effect on the
> refinery, altough at least one of the shell fell within it,
> which is remarkable when firing from a rolling ship with a
> shortened gun.
>
> Cheers,
>
> GUIDO</HTML>

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Information request U-boat attack on Aruba Chris van der Vaart 10/08/2002 02:48PM
Re: Information request U-boat attack on Aruba Andrew Mair 10/08/2002 04:44PM
Re: Information request U-boat attack on Aruba Tom 10/08/2002 04:45PM
Re: Information request U-boat attack on Aruba Tom 10/08/2002 04:48PM
Re: Information request U-boat attack on Aruba Guido 10/08/2002 08:07PM
Re: Information request U-boat attack on Aruba Chris van der Vaart 10/09/2002 03:44PM
Re: Information request U-boat attack on Aruba kpp 10/08/2002 08:08PM
Re: Information request U-boat attack on Aruba Chris van der Vaart 10/09/2002 03:49PM
Re: Information request U-boat attack on Aruba kpp 10/09/2002 06:10PM
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