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Re: Air Attacks on U-Boats, Norway, 17 May 44
Posted by: Mark Huxtable ()
Date: November 27, 2006 10:38PM

Hi Again Rainer/All:

Look, I'm going to be a pest by monopolising this thread, but I see on the (very fine) uboat database on this site that the fate of U-240 was updated by Axel Niestlé during February 1998. The previously recorded fate was that it had been sunk by a 330 Squadron Sunderland - the update in Feb '98 stated that the Sunderland actually attacked U-668, which was undamaged.

However, a member over on one of the aircraft boards, where Chris originally posted, had the following information regarding the attack just past midnight on 16/17 May 1944 by the 333 Squadron Catalina:

"According to 'Flying Cats' by Andrew Hendrie published 1986 by Airlife ... the pilot of FP121 Sub-Lt Harald Hartmann met the captain of the U668 after the war when Wolfgang von Eickstedt was a priest in Hamburg and they became friends and thus the author had personal accounts from the two former antagonists a unique event in his study of such combats."

The account confirms U-668 was not sunk, but does say it was damaged.

Given that the two skippers compared notes on the incident, is it worth re-examining whether U-240 was in fact sunk by the Sunderland (currently listed in the database as lost to unknown causes)?

Either way, I'm no expert on U-Boats, however I thought the information might be of interest.

Cheers,

Mark

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Air Attacks on U-Boats, Norway, 17 May 44 Mark Huxtable 11/25/2006 06:15AM
Re: Air Attacks on U-Boats, Norway, 17 May 44 Mark Huxtable 11/25/2006 11:14AM
Re: Air Attacks on U-Boats, Norway, 17 May 44 Rainer Kolbicz 11/25/2006 12:44PM
Re: Air Attacks on U-Boats, Norway, 17 May 44 CSheppard 11/25/2006 02:00PM
Re: Air Attacks on U-Boats, Norway, 17 May 44 CSheppard 11/25/2006 04:40PM
Re: Air Attacks on U-Boats, Norway, 17 May 44 Mark Huxtable 11/25/2006 08:14PM
Re: Air Attacks on U-Boats, Norway, 17 May 44 Mark Huxtable 11/25/2006 08:17PM
Re: Air Attacks on U-Boats, Norway, 17 May 44 CSheppard 11/26/2006 02:15AM
Re: Air Attacks on U-Boats, Norway, 17 May 44 Mark Huxtable 11/27/2006 10:38PM
Re: Air Attacks on U-Boats, Norway, 17 May 44 Rainer Kolbicz 11/28/2006 12:10AM
Re: Air Attacks on U-Boats, Norway, 17 May 44 Mark Huxtable 11/28/2006 12:17AM
Re: Air Attacks on U-Boats, Norway, 17 May 44 Ragnar J. Ragnarsson 11/28/2006 08:50PM
Re: Air Attacks on U-Boats, Norway, 17 May 44 Rainer Kolbicz 11/28/2006 11:51PM
Re: Air Attacks on U-Boats, Norway, 17 May 44 Ragnar J. Ragnarsson 11/29/2006 01:47AM
Re: Air Attacks on U-Boats, Norway, 17 May 44 CSheppard 11/29/2006 04:42AM
Re: Air Attacks on U-Boats, Norway, 17 May 44 Ragnar J. Ragnarsson 11/29/2006 01:18PM
Re: Air Attacks on U-Boats, Norway, 17 May 44 CSheppard 11/29/2006 01:42PM
Re: Air Attacks on U-Boats, Norway, 17 May 44 Ragnar J. Ragnarsson 11/29/2006 02:17PM
Re: Air Attacks on U-Boats, Norway, 17 May 44 Ragnar J. Ragnarsson 11/29/2006 01:23PM
Re: Air Attacks on U-Boats, Norway, 17 May 44 CSheppard 11/29/2006 02:10PM
Re: Air Attacks on U-Boats, Norway, 17 May 44 Ragnar J. Ragnarsson 11/29/2006 02:30PM
Re: Air Attacks on U-Boats, Norway, 17 May 44 CSheppard 11/29/2006 04:08PM
Re: Air Attacks on U-Boats, Norway, 17 May 44 Ragnar J. Ragnarsson 11/29/2006 04:31PM
Re: Air Attacks on U-Boats, Norway, 17 May 44 Rainer Kolbicz 11/29/2006 10:38PM
Re: Air Attacks on U-Boats, Norway, 17 May 44 Axel 11/30/2006 10:51AM
Re: Air Attacks on U-Boats, Norway, 17 May 44 Mark Huxtable 12/09/2006 04:38AM


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