On the website page giving details of the Iron Cross,in the section on Decorations, there is a picture of Hitler congratulating the officers of U-29 at the Ubootstützpunkt in Wilhelmshaven on September 27, 1939 on sinking HMS Courageous. I am desperately seeking a decent scan of this photograph. Does anyone have the photo, or a decent scan of it, or know who owns it, please. Tony Colvin
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VikingG's is the Bundesarchiv picture referred to in the first post of this thread. The outline of Nordmark can be compared with it here since I do not know how to copy it to this post.
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Bruce Dennis is correct about the fears of secret U-boat refuelling bases. For example on September 12, 1939, Sidney Cotton took Lockheed 12A G-AFTL belonging to Winterbotham's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) on an illegal photo reconnaissance (PR) sortie along the coast of Ireland to establish whether preparations were in hand for the Irish Free State to refuel U-boats. This was done at
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Since posting I have looked up the Nordmark and it closely resembles the US Prairie. So it looks as if Beaver is incorrect. But I wonder about his source for the Bismarck's refuelling by US tankers.
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There are Bundesarchiv photos, numbers 86MW/4285/31 and 32, which were published in Paul Beaver's 'U-Boats in the Atlantic", and show U-107 and other U-Boats refuelling from the US Tanker Prairie. The section on U-107 in this website states; "On 3 and 4 of May (1941), U-107 refuelled from the German support ship Nordmark." Beaver's caption states; "The Americ
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Paul. I am writing an article about the Wilhelmshaven U-Bootstützpunkt in the Banter Kaserne. Could you please explain a) who lived in each of the seven buildings on the site and b) the function of each building. Also, do you know where the office of Karl Doenitz was when he was in Wilhelmshaven from 1939 to 1941; and do you know the address of his home. Any other information would be very
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