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Re: SS Memnon
Posted by:
Rainer
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Date: November 10, 2014 07:49PM
The source for this information is Herbert Ritschels "Kurzfassung KTB deutscher U-Boote". Alan Tennent writes in "British and Commonwealth Merchant Ship Losses to Axis Submarines" that one gunner and the six RAF personnel carried as passengers were taken prisoner, but not by whom. However, I think Tennent meant that the soldiers were kept in Vichy French internment while the men from the Merchant Navy were released. There are also many discrepancies about how many lives were lost in the sinking (differs from 3 to 7).
I will do some additional research in primary sources to find out what really happened to the survivors of MEMNON. But it seems that the story with men taken prisoner by GNEISENAU is not true.
Best regards
Rainer
Crew member of uboat.net
I will do some additional research in primary sources to find out what really happened to the survivors of MEMNON. But it seems that the story with men taken prisoner by GNEISENAU is not true.
Best regards
Rainer
Crew member of uboat.net
Subject | Written By | Posted |
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SS Memnon | jcrt | 11/08/2014 09:58PM |
Re: SS Memnon | Rainer | 11/10/2014 07:49PM |
Re: SS Memnon | jcrt | 11/11/2014 04:29PM |
Re: SS Memnon | jcrt | 11/11/2014 04:49PM |
Re: SS Memnon | Rainer | 12/07/2014 07:39PM |
Re: SS Memnon | jcrt | 12/08/2014 02:03PM |