Hi Kurt, The U-boot archive does not have personnel records. They also only have limited crew lists and then mostly for officers. The place you want to contact for information on your relative is WASt. See for information on contacting WASt. They are the German government agency with access to what personnel records still exist. You will probably have to have your relative’s date of
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Hi Edward, See the post at: .
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Hi Kelvin, From the member's area here at uboat.net: "Sunk 21 July, 1944 in the English Channel south of Brighton, in position 50.27N, 00.13W, by depth charges from the British frigates HMS Curzon and HMS Ekins. 49 dead (all hands lost)." A google search on the names of those 2 warships just might return details of the sinking.
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Hi Kelvin, Try . Once you find out which U-boat he served on you can also find out the fate of that boat there by clicking on the link t the boat. Note that a "+" by the U-boat number indicates that he was killed on that boat. Once you know the boat let us know & perhaps someone here can help with additional info about the loss of that boat. You might also want to post his na
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Hi Paul, There was no 1926 U-boat school class. Germany was still forbidden to have U-boats at that time. I expect you are asking about Crew 26 – all officer candidates who joined the German Navy in 1926. The member’s area here will let you find a list of the U-boat commanders that were Crew 26 regardless of when they went to U-boat school or when they took the commander’s course.
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Hi Steve, You got mail.
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Hi Joe, April 23rd, 1943 U-91 (Type VIIC) Commanded by Heinz Hungershausen rescued 4 survivors from U-752 (Type VIIC) commanded by Karl-Ernst Schroeter after U-752 was sunk in a rocket attack by a Swordfish aircraft. This was possibly the first U-boat sunk by rockets from a carrier aircraft. I know there were others but I don’t have the details at hand. Source: Wynn, Kenneth. Career
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Hi Paul, If you aren't confused enough yet, Franz Kurowski (Knight's Cross Holders of the U-boat Service) has it at June 8, 1945.
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Hi Captain Bligh, This is a history forum not a place to simply speculate on what might have happened. If you look at the forum rules you will see that "what if" scenarios" are forbidden here. The fact is that there are no records or any other actual evidence indicating that a U-boat was ever re-supplied in Ireland. When you have actual records to the contrary I am sure y
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Hi Captain Bligh, Spies were landed but U-boats were not re-supplied by putting into Irish ports. The records of the individual U-boats have survived the war as have much of U-boat command's records and there is no reference to any U-boat ever putting into an Irish port. The standard reference on U-boats putting into foreign ports during the war is: Showell, Jak P. Mallmann. U-
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Hi Jim, Whether or not you would be surprised, it has already been determined that no U-boat entered an irish port during the war.
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Hi Paul, I don't know about pre war but definitely not during the war. We just covered this a couple of threads below and it has been covered several times before.
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Hi Paul, I frequently use: . They list booksellers in several countries and as postage between countries tends to be especialy expensive for heavy items like books finding a bookseller closer to home can pay off. They list both new and used books and generally include sources like amazon.com and abbebooks too.
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Hi George, This topic has been discussed several times here on the forum. U-boats never put into Irish ports to hide or pick up supplies or fuel.
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Hi Ludovic, You got mail.
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Hi Ron, The German U-boat Museum (formerly The U-boot Archiv) in Altenbruch about 8 km outside of Cuxhaven has a mint condition 88mm U-boat deck gun. They don't have e-mail but you can contact them at: Deutsches U-Boot Museum Lange Strasse 1 D-27478 Cuxhaven — Altenbruch Germany Phone: 011-49-4722-912-395 Call between 9-12 German time on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Frida
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Hi Mike, The Type II was designed to carry 6 torpedoes and sometimes they did however it turned out that it wasn't practical to do so on most war patrols with all of the other supplies necessary etc. and they typically only carried 5. That's why this site just lists the Type II as carrying only 5. The 6th torpedo also affected the boat's trim. So both are correct - the Type
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Hi Roger, Thanks for the explanation. I see what's going on now The U.S. National Archives has an even more cryptic website. Perhaps someday they will put some actual content online or at least a decent description of what they have & how many pages it is etc. The U.S. National Archives is also quite slow. I have an outstanding request I have been waiting months for right no
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Hi Stephen, El Lago was actually owned by the U.S. War Shipping Administration but operated by U.S. Lines although she sailed under the Panamanian flag. The account in the book below came from the statements of the captain and the engineer after their repatriation to the U.S. in 1945 so there are probably records on the sinking at the U.S. National Archives too. Source: Moore, Captain Arth
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Hi All, The destruction of the Panamanian El Lago by U-615 on 11 Oct. 1942 is documented in the member’s area here at uboat.net: “On 20 Aug, 1942, the El Lago (Master Finn Abrahamson) had left New York, arriving Boston the next day. After loading cargo, she left Boston in convoy BX-35 on 30 August and arrived Halifax two days later. The vessel left Halifax on 5 September with the convoy
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Hi Paul, Högel's book is available in English: Högel, Georg. U-Boat Emblems of World War II 1939 – 1945. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1996. ISBN 0-76430-724-X. Copyright: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1999. There is a supplement to it that is only available in German though.
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Hi Paul, You got mail.
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Hi Brodolak, See the post at: .
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Hi Paul, U-26, U-46, and U-1210 all had a form of Mickey Mouse emblem. I don't think U-26 had cap emblems though. Any chance you could e-mail me a copy of the photo?
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Hi Fred, Good luck figuring all that out. Oskar Mantel was on U-1229 (not U-1228) when it was sunk but I have no idea exactly where they actually intended to land him or why they picked that place. He was supposed to infiltrate American scientific circles to find out about our advanced technology but he was hardly qualified for it – he had been a bar tender and ladies’ hairdresser
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Hi Captain Duffy, I googled K-14 and the first hit was . It doesn’t definitely attribute her loss to a U-boat and its source is the “Eastern Sea Frontier - Northern Group Reports (War Diary) July, 1944, National Archives and Records Administration”. If it was a U-boat perhaps nobody has ever figured out which one for sure although there is speculation that U-233 (lost roughly i
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