Hi lars, There is: Hans Götze Born on 12 Jan 1916 in Belgaum, Goa. Crew XI/39. Oberleutnant zur See (1 Oct 1943) Died on 1 Mar 1993 Commands: U-586, U-2527 However (according to Busch & Roll) he was a watch officer on U-586 (IIWO 9/41 -12/42 & IWO 12/42-9/43) & during that time they were in Bergen, Trondheim, Skjomenfjord, and Narvik. See for a list of the war patr
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Hi Heidenreich, There are a number of scenarios that would cause a lookout to not see a plane until it was too late to dive the boat. Sometimes they just missed it. Each lookout had a sector of the sky to scan & they had to do it for hours on end and that led to eye strain/fatigue etc. Their binoculars sometimes got fogged up, got wet from spray, rain or snow etc. & had to be cleane
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Hi All, I have no idea how gunfire attacks were carried out by U-boats during WWI but if you are interested in how they were carried out during WWII see the article entitled “Treatment of Merchant Ship Survivors by U-boat Crews 1939 – 1945” at: . Also note that admiral Dönitz mentioned several times in the above article was a U-boat commander during WWI and it was he that dictated the cond
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Hi Ken, I have finished reading the 3rd in the series and it is as good as the rest. The forth in the series (September 1943 to May 1945) will be published soon & is already being translated into English. Here are links (Schiffer Publishing) to the 3 volumes already published in English: The German U-Boat Base at Lorient, France, Vol.1: June 1940-June 1941 The German U-Boa
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Hi Ken, I have all three and they are indeed quite good. They are available in French & English and they are large format books with all glossy pages so the photos (and there are a lot of them) are as good as they can be in a book. I haven't finished reading the 3rd in the series yet but I am already looking forward to the 4th one. They are published in French first & it take
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Hi Stefen, Sorry, I can’t answer your question about your father Dr. Joachim F. Wolf. His name doesn’t appear in any of my sources on doctors in the U-boat Service but they are quite limited. However, there is a book on Doctors in the U-boat Service you might still find interesting (though your dad’s name isn’t in it): Nöldeke, Hartmut and Hartmann, Volker. Der Sanitätsdienst in der de
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Hi Madman, After Prien's success at Scapa Flow the Bull of Scapa Flow became the 7th U-Flotilla emblem so this photo may not have anything at all to do with U-47 directly. In all likelyhood the car simply belonged to that flotilla.
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Hi All, Not only are the Milchkühe poorly represented on the Internet as Maciek points out, there is little available anywhere else that I have been able to find. The lack of documentation on the Type XIV is truly sad. Especially photos taken inside one. That said, these are the two best books on them I have found: Urbanke, Axel. Suppliers of the Grey Wolves - The Story of the German
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Hi All, There were some cases where U-boats had to turn in their codebooks & Enigma machines and use lesser codes for communication. These were generally mining missions (tube launched magnetic mines) where the U-boat would have to operate close to the enemy coast in shallow water. When U-26 went on her 1st mining mission at the start of the war (she was already at sea with a load of
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Hi submarinehunt, Try . Read each of the reports. They were written by the Allies after the capture of U-570 & they go into some detail on most of the technology in U-570. This sounds like what you are looking for & should get you started. Also see the “Design Studies” link at the bottom of that page. They cover other than Type VII U-boats. They weren’t all the same of course.
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Hi submarinehunt, Try a forum search using just the word Coffins. Be sure to specify “All Dates” in the drop down at the bottom of the search form. The Iron Coffins question has been asked many times here.
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Hi John, The language appears to be Dutch. Here is the google translation: "Hi 'day and night shooting near memel to 15:08:40' available UFA universe film AG to 08/31/40"
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Hi All, At 93 years and seven months he had a long life. Arthur served in the E-Motor room of U-859 as a MaschGfr. When U-859 was sunk September 23, 1944 near Penang in the Straits of Malacca, by torpedoes from the British submarine HMS TRENCHANT he was one of the few survivors that escaped from the boat after it had sunk to the bottom at a depth of around 164 feet. Arthur Baudzus was bo
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Hi All, Does anyone know where I can find a copy of the 1936 London Submarine Protocol? I am primarily interested in article 74 dealing with the Prize Regulations. I have googled it to death with no luck but perhaps my google skills aren’t up to par. I am also looking for the detailed British list of contraband items. I did find a general description on-line at: but there should be a mo
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Hi Buzz, Germany did have land-based high frequency direction finding in 1943 however it probably played little or no part in the sinking of the JASPER PARK. She was sunk because the U-boat stumbled upon her at sea. This was the normal way ships sailing independently were found by U-boats. Intelligence reports were used to determine the areas U-boats were sent to patrol though. There wer
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Hi All, The Naval Grid Calculator is back on-line at: . It converts grid references (typically found in KTBs) to latitude/longitude and latitude/longitude to grid reference and also shows the result on a map.
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Hi Maciek, U-26 was also the first U-boat to enter the Med (November, 1939).
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Hi E.J, We went through something like this years ago and it still comes up today from time to time. The wreck in question is located off Jeremie Haiti and was supposed to be a U-boat & some of the locals in the area even confirmed it. It was discussed over & over again here on the forum until it was finally determined to be an extensively surveyed wreck of a Spanish-American War era g
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Horst Bredow a former U-boat officer and the founder of the U-bot Archiv in Altenbruch passed away peacefully yesterday afternoon, Sunday, the 22nd of February 2015, in his house at Altenbruch. Horst was a friend to all of us in the U-boat community. He worked tirelessly most of his life to help let the world know the truth about the way the U-boat War was conducted and the bravery and honor
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Hi Brian, You have a PM.
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Hi Jukka, The Longest Voyages is good – typical of Showel’s work. I also like his books and I own most of them. Swastikas in the Arctic hasn’t arrived you but it should be here shortly. Among other things The longest Voyages contains some details of the cargos carried between Germany & Japan by each boat & this is pretty difficult info to find. He found it in decrypts of diplomat
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Hi Gary, You might find some food for thought by researching the Scapa Flow attack by U-47. It was a daring and dangerous attack by a U-boat on the British warships inside Scapa Flow early in the war.
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Hi Alan, You have a Private Message.
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Hi Marco, See: Whittingham, Richard. The Last Mass Execution in the United States – Martial Justice. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997. ISBN: 1-55750-945-X. Copyright: Richard Whittingham, 1997. The man that was killed was Werner Drechsler (U-118). After U-118 was sunk and he was rescued Drechsler turned traitor and willingly worked for the Allies by presenting himself to oth
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Hi Akki, The documents you are selling on ebay come from Horst Bredow’s U-boot Archiv in Altenbruch Germany. I have seen them there. Where & how did you get them and does Horst know you are selling them on ebay?
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Hi Portsmouth Townie, First of all, calling Chillino a liar on a public forum is inappropriate. It appears you did as little research on him as you did on U-234. He served his country with distinction in a very dangerous job (EOD) during WWII and we owe him a debt of gratitude for it. Today like all the WWII veterans he is quite elderly (in his 90s now) and he is ill on top of that. He is
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Hi Vinny, As I mentioned in my post I don’t necessarily consider Blair a good source. His work is seriously distorted by his extreme bias in favor of the American navy. At least some of his work is simply sour grapes and the result of the “not invented here” syndrome. That said, his work (it consists of 2 volumes: The Hunters & The Hunted) does contain a lot of good information and
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Hi Vinny, These anti-torpedo nets were referred to (by the Brits) as the “Admiralty Net Defense” although they were used on American, Canadian & British merchant ships that were equipped to deploy them during WWII. I am not certain who invented them though. They were probably used on other allied merchant ships too but I don’t have a source to prove that. At any rate they weren’t used a
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Hi Claus, You got mail.
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Hi M3-SRT8, The media will publish anything they think will sell papers and never look back. The more bizarre or controversial it is the more papers it will sell. Stories that can’t be proved are especially easy to drag out for days too. If a story is proven untrue they sometimes try to make a story out that too. If they do print a retraction it will be on an obscure back page etc. They
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