hi, to operate a submarine (or any other warship) you need a functioning logistic chain including an industry (factories) producing the necessary spare parts. On the German side, most of this was destroyed in Allied air attacks. The Allied navies using German warships had to acquire spare parts or change the equipment. An example of this is the Norwegian navy operating ex-Kriegsmarine
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hi, I beg your pardon but I think that this question is out of place in the World War One section. greetings, Urs
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hi, Fabrizio, ref your quote "“Three ships are reported to have been attacked by U-boats during the week" from N.199 In the week 17-24 June, U 593 (Kelbling) hit two LST's on June 22, LST 333 became a CTL, LST 387 was damaged and repaired greetings, Urs
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hi, John the picture low on the page refers to greetings, Urs
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hi, John, I`m rather sure that the notes referring to UB-39 are correct, see The written text in your link refers, however, to the exploits of U 57 (Ritter von Georg) I recall that I saw the picture shown at the end of the linked text in Fürbringers book "Alarm! Tauchen!!" in the english edition "Fips", see greetings, Urs
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R.i.P. Urs
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moin, Herr Lezius, betr. Einsatz auf einem U-Boot Es kam vor, daß aufgrund der hohen Verluste bei den Seeoffizieren (U-Boot-Fahrer) Marine-Verwaltungsoffiziere in die Laufbahne der Seeoffiziere eingesteuert wurden, Beispiele sind und und ein mini: Konstanz liegt am Bodensee, Konstanza am schwarzen Meer Grüße, Urs Heßling
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hi, not torpedoed, but mined off Cromarty : greetings, Urs
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Nitin_Shirsekar Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- The action took their captors totally by surprise. The British fleet had sailed out of Scapa Flow that morning on a routine training exercise. ... The British lookouts could only gaze in disbelief ... in the waters littered with the remains of the Imperial German Fleet --- Three comments 1. I`m not sure
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hi, I tend to disagree with that "one of the last straws" opinion. Even after the LUSITANIA sinking, Woodrow Wilson won the 1916 presidential election with a "He kept us out of War" campaign. Germany`s (resp. the Kaiser`s) decision for unrestricted submarine warfare and the Zimmermann telegram were, IMO, the main points greetings, Urs
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hi, there was a name-forerunner, the ), the first US ship lost in WW I greetings, Urs
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hi, see greetings, Urs
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hello, gerard heimann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > S142 final fate was being sunk during an air attack on Le Havre on 15.06.1944. S 142 service life in greetings, Urs
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hi, "Schirmmütze" is correct (German) greetings, Urs
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hi, Mark, ref Bayntun in EG 44. B. had just been commissioned in January. I doubt whether she was operational already one month later. greetings, Urs
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hi, remark btw : the first submarine sunk by aircraft was, however, the French submarine FOUCAULT, sunk September 15, 1916, by two austro-hungarian LOHNER flying boats, see greetings, Urs
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hi, Klaus, although both the commanding officer and the IWO may be (and, hopefully, are) cunning, they stand in the conning tower :-) greetings, Urs
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hi, it may have been a mix-up of VOLENDAM and greetings, Urs
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hi, John no, I`m sorry, my specialty are just the Schnellboot operations greetings, Urs
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Platon Alexiades Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- German MT 13 minefield laid by the 3rd Schnellbootflottille on 20 April. Boats S 31, S 33, S 34, S S 54, S 56, S 58, S 61 greetings, Urs
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hi, an "easy one" ist greetings, Urs
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hi, the spelling is STOHWASSER. see and greetings, Urs
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hi, highly recommendable (in German) greetings, Urs
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hi, yes, with a view "from the other side", this, although not a sinking, might be worth a mention, as well : greetings, Urs
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hi, sehr zu empfehlen : Gruß, Urs
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hi, Michael Lowrey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- These later promotions were older officer candidates (mid-20s) who had more experience, joined later, and thus received less training. One of them was Heinrich Hoffmann. He had joined the navy in 1928, had been an Able Seaman and a Petty Officer in torpedo boats, was selected for officer candidate ("
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hi, seevogel114 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Entered on the 04.01.1933 and completed the Infantreiausbildung > in the 4th company/II. 04.01.1933 - 06.30.1933. I presume that 01.04.1933 is the right date (a number`s turnaround) greetings, Urs
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hi, you might ask this question in and show pictures of front and backside. greetings, Urs
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hi, Ken, I agree, both ways to direct fire seem to be possible for the IIWO BÜ is an acronym for Befehlsübermittlung, i.e. command & control telephone I`m sure you have seen pictures of soldiers wearing a "head set" phone to listen and to talk into the mouthpiece greetings, Urs
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Hi, With respect to your "It was much the same during an attack by gunfire except the IIWO was the gunnery officer & he would be on the bridge directing the deck gun crew." I beg to differ. IMO the II WO would stand on the boat's deck near the gun - to have the same eye level as the gunner - to direct the firing directly (there war no BÜ between bridge and gun) gree
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