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Re: U96 Involvement in evacuation of the Eastern Provinces
Posted by: vito ()
Date: November 11, 2008 09:05AM

Denis....

In addition to references from your later post ".....I know that some U-boats were involved in the evacuation. The evacuation started towards the end of 1944, so it could be possible that U96 did help. See book "U-boats under the Swastika" by Jak P.Mallmann Showell see chapter Death with Dignity the last two pages. Also see book "Neither Sharks nor Wolves" by Timothy P. Mulligan reference on page 86......". Showell, I note, is the only one that mentions
U-96.

Perhaps the U-96 KTB would also shed some light on this. Ritschel Band 2 has no info regarding U-96 involvement.


Some additional references from my records, regarding this topic of evacuations from the Eastern provinces (including Operation Hannibal):

1) U-Boat Adventures (Melanie Wiggins)--Pages 185-189; pages 202-203.

2) Schiffsschicksale Ostsee 1945 (Wolfgang Müller) - pages 42-45

3) [www.wlb-stuttgart.de]

4) This forum post [www.uboat.net]

5) [www.spiegeltvdistribution.com]

6) [www.artepro.com] - page 23

7) U-3505 info - [history.zdf.de]

8) [nexusboard.net] --
Operation Hannibal

9) Operation Hannibal -- [www.google.com]

10) [www.abendblatt.de]

11) Rettungsaktion Ostsee 1944/1945 (Martin Schmidtke) -- pages 236-243
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-- Regards,
Ken Deshaies
Newton, New Hampshire

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Re: U96 Involvement in evacuation of the Eastern Provinces Denis Martin FTU 12/03/2008 06:02PM
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Sinking of the Dagomba on 1942. My father was the ship's Bosun. Thank you. Denis Ellis 03/17/2011 03:46AM
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Re: U96 Involvement in evacuation of the Eastern Provinces Denis Martin FTU 11/10/2008 03:42PM
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