Unidentified footage of U-96 and others
Posted by:
jackm
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Date: March 14, 2013 02:20AM
Hey there - I've only ever lurked on these forums as I'm not particularly up to snuff with my Second World War naval history, but I thought I'd jump in as I thought this might be of particular interest to people here.
I was going through some archival captured wartime German footage on the British Pathé website and happened across this 1943 newsreel:
[www.britishpathe.com]
British Pathé appears not to have retrospectively identified the U-boats in this footage. Does anyone have any ideas? Several of the boats shown have visible identifying emblems - the first has a bull painted on the conning tower, I think - but the one that really grabbed my attention was 0.43. Note the laughing swordfish emblem! That'd pretty conclusively be U-96, yes? Probably coming back from one of its later patrols if this film was shot a year before the British captured it, say?
Just wondered if anyone else had seen this before, and if the other boats can be identified!
I was going through some archival captured wartime German footage on the British Pathé website and happened across this 1943 newsreel:
[www.britishpathe.com]
British Pathé appears not to have retrospectively identified the U-boats in this footage. Does anyone have any ideas? Several of the boats shown have visible identifying emblems - the first has a bull painted on the conning tower, I think - but the one that really grabbed my attention was 0.43. Note the laughing swordfish emblem! That'd pretty conclusively be U-96, yes? Probably coming back from one of its later patrols if this film was shot a year before the British captured it, say?
Just wondered if anyone else had seen this before, and if the other boats can be identified!
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Unidentified footage of U-96 and others
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jackm | 03/14/2013 02:20AM |
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Re: Unidentified footage of U-96 and others
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vito | 03/15/2013 08:03AM |