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Re: U 129 on 1 April 1942
Posted by: Platon Alexiades ()
Date: November 10, 2009 06:04PM

Hi Brian and Rainer,

Definitely not an Italian submarine. MOROSINI was much further West, returning home from a patrol in the West Indies and encountered an unidentified U-boat of the 750 ton type at 2050/2 April in 44°52' N, 13°16' W.
U 404 was in the general area of the attack (in BF 4666 at midnight on 1 April) but did not report anything unusual. She did sight a U-boat which did not answer her challenge at 1958/1 and this may have been the U-boat attacked.
Since aircraft navigation was far from being precise (another report from this attack mentions a position of 46°32' N, 06°35' W) and the reported course of the U-boat may have been wrong, this may require quite a bit of digging.

Best regards,

Platon

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U 129 on 1 April 1942 Brian V. 11/06/2009 06:08PM
Re: U 129 on 1 April 1942 Rainer 11/06/2009 07:24PM
Re: U 129 on 1 April 1942 Brian V. 11/07/2009 05:56AM
Re: U 129 on 1 April 1942 Platon Alexiades 11/10/2009 06:04PM
Re: U 129 on 1 April 1942 Rainer 11/10/2009 07:52PM
Re: U 129 on 1 April 1942 Platon Alexiades 11/10/2009 10:16PM
Re: U 129 on 1 April 1942 Brian V. 11/11/2009 05:30AM


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