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Commander Lost Overboard
Posted by: Mark McShane ()
Date: December 30, 2012 11:45AM

All,

Reading through BdU war diaies on uboatarchive.net and the following was an interesting entry.
11 January 1944

Admonitory Radio Message No. 76:
When about to dive because of danger from aircraft the "Naxos" antenna of one submarine was left on the bridge, cable caused conning tower hatch to jam while being closed. Commanding Officer gave order "Blow" and dashed to the bridge. His order reached the control room too late, the boat dipped, conning tower hatch was slammed from above, Commanding Officer overboard, not picked up.

Can somebody identify the boat and commander in question?

KR,

Mark

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Commander Lost Overboard Mark McShane 12/30/2012 11:45AM
Re: Commander Lost Overboard Dan Girard 12/31/2012 09:01PM
Re: Commander Lost Overboard Mark McShane 12/31/2012 09:10PM
Re: Commander Lost Overboard Dan Girard 01/02/2013 10:44PM
Re: Commander Lost Overboard Josephbremez 12/31/2012 10:47PM


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