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Re: u20 - sank the Lusitania? Crew list?
Posted by: Michael Lowrey ()
Date: October 17, 2010 09:00AM

In general, it's extremely difficult to track World War I U-boat crew members that weren't officers or KIA. The typical source we use for research purposes, KTBs (= war diaries), do not contain crew lists. KTBs, of course, are widely available exactly because the Americans microfilmed them after WWII and the National Archives and Records administration sells copies.

A U-boat's log should contain crew information. Only a relatively small number of U-boat logs are known to survive and these are at the German military archives at Freiburg. They weren't microfilmed.

Best wishes,
Michael

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u20 - sank the Lusitania? Crew list? Michael West 10/09/2010 03:36PM
Re: u20 - sank the Lusitania? Crew list? jcrt 10/10/2010 05:27PM
Re: u20 - sank the Lusitania? Crew list? Jan7 11/03/2010 07:16PM
Re: u20 - sank the Lusitania? Crew list? Michael Lowrey 10/17/2010 09:00AM


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