Don't lose sight of the attack on Orleans (MA) on 21 July, 1918 by U-156. We lost a tug boat and (4) barges.Some shells landed in local swamps and on beaches The only attack on American soil in the war. U-156 continued north after the attack. Fred Morin
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Could it be 2 July 1944 and related to the loss of US Navy blimp K-14? There are many messages on this incident on this site. Fred Morin
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Bill Althoff's book is another outstanding example of the contributions airships made to the war effort. Highly recommended. Fred
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An eye opening and factual history of a little known aspect of WW II. Well worth the price. Should be in every US Navy and U-boat researchers library. Fred
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There is a lot of background on this incident published on this site and in the numerous issues of the Naval Airship Assoc. magazine, The Noon Balloon. The Mt. Desert Islander newspaper did a 3 part story about 2 years ago that covered all the discrepancies in the official findings and there were many. Bear in mind that a month after the allies landed in France on D-Day and Roosevelt and Churchil
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Sorry for an error. First article should be "Platinum Plunder or Fool's Gold" from the Cape Cod Times by Doug Frazier dated February 26, 2009.
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Hello Gentlemen, Apparently,this group is finally being exposed as a multi-million dollar shipwreck treasure investment scheme. It looks like this was just one of many such schemes for this group. Please Google the following: "Gold Plunder or Fool's Gold" from the Cape Cod Times by Doug Fraser dated Feb. 26, 2012; "Sea Hunter's Claims Challenged" from
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See www.naval-airships.org, "What's New" for a copy of Anthony Atwood's master's thesis on U-134 vs. K-74. It is the definitive work on the subject.
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That's old news. Anything new? March for recovery has come and gone. Fred
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www.uboatarchive.net has quite a bit of info and documentation on these events. Naval historian Paul Lawton, Esq, has also contributed info to this forum on the Steinhoff ordeal.Search U-873, Steinhoff, etc.; on this forum. F. Morin
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Perhaps Cliff Robertson portraying JFK in PT 109. Fred
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Robert: My records show 17 March. What's your source for the quotes? One of mine is Jim Shock's US Navy Airships, 1915-1962. Fred
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On the evening of Saturday, 16 May, Naval Historian Paul Lawton, Esq., Jim Fahey, Archivist and Curator of the Watson Museum and Research Center, and I will be hosting an evening with Gerhard Walter Wengefeld in Quincy, MA. Walter is one of the 3 survivors of the U-444 which was engaged in an attack on Allied Convoy HX-228. The battle is well documented here on uboat.net and also on uboatarchive.
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Due to a computer glitch, Naval Historian Paul Lawton has asked that I post this message on his behalf: Please GOOGLE these two items: Subsearesearch-Links-Project U-233 and Subsearesearch-Links-Operation CA-35. The first link regards their alleged discovery to have been the wreck of the U-233 in Casco Bay, in the Gulf of Maine several hundred miles from where she was actually sunk, off Sab
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There are many references to dirigibles vs.u-boats on this site; try searching "blimps" vs. u-boats as well. Also try www.naval-airship.org and search their online magazine editions for stories and photos. Fred Morin
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On the US east coast, harbor defenses were guarded by so-called "Gate Examination Vessels." These were small, armed ships, sometimes converted lightships such as the Nantucket (LV-112). They were armed with a 3" deck gun and several 0.50 cal. heavy machine guns, painted grey, had their hull portholes blanked off and light and RDF beacons removed. The Nantucket was taken off her sta
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According to Paul Lawton it is the experimental Engelmann boat, VS5. See Rossler, Eberhard, The U-Boat: The Evolution and Technical Development of the German Submarine, (chapter 4: U-Boat Construction from 1935 to 1939),Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD. 1975, ISBN 0-87021-966-9, page 121. Fred
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Please look at V. E. Tarrant's "The U-Boat Offensive: 1914-1945" Arms & Armour Publishing, 1989, ISBN 1-85409-520X. It lists 12 German U-boats torpedoed and sunk by other submarines during WW I and 25 German U-boats torpedoed and sunk by other submarines during WW II.
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Did anyone try www.ubootwaffe.net? They have a conversion tool on their site but not all data has been computed
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Each Fall the local German-American Society hosts a ceremony honoring the 22 German and Italian POWs that died and are buried at Ft. Devens in Ayer, MA. There are speeches by the German and Italian consuls, the base's current CO, wreaths are placed before the graves, each grave stone is decorated with an appropriate national flag, and a band plays the national anthems and some other national
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Would suggest you "search" this site for many messages about the USN K-14 incident. And, the U-233 was inbound when it was sunk, after the K-14 went down. There has been considerable research done on this.
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If anyone's interested, the Watson Museum and Research Center in Braintree, MA has the log book from the U-444. They are part of the Braintree Historical Society. Fred
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All evidence points to U-233 being inbound at the time. However, why was the USS Card Task Group sent out to intercept her? What put the TG on alert for a U-boat in that area? Determining what other U-boat was in the area is the final sticking point. Also, why was that area of Maine so popular for U-boat activity? One month after the K-14 incident there was an attempt to land a saboteur, Oskar Ma
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