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Re: U-boats in the Med 1941-1944
Posted by: Platon Alexiades ()
Date: August 01, 2007 10:14PM

Hi all,

Bruce is quite correct, these were the containers for human torpedoes or "maiali". The submarine AMBRA depicted in the picture was one of four submarines to be equipped to carry them (the others were GONDAR, IRIDE and SCIRE).

Platon

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U-boats in the Med 1941-1944 Platon Alexiades 08/01/2007 12:15PM
Re: U-boats in the Med 1941-1944 Walter Schmidt 08/01/2007 05:28PM
Re: U-boats in the Med 1941-1944 DanOdenweller 08/01/2007 07:44PM
Re: U-boats in the Med 1941-1944 Ken Dunn 08/01/2007 08:18PM
Re: U-boats in the Med 1941-1944 Bruce Dennis 08/01/2007 09:51PM
Re: U-boats in the Med 1941-1944 Platon Alexiades 08/01/2007 10:14PM
Re: U-boats in the Med 1941-1944 Walter Schmidt 08/01/2007 10:32PM
Re: U-boats in the Med 1941-1944 gerard heimann 08/02/2007 08:22PM


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