Hi, Does anyone know if U-boats had direction finding (RDF) equipment that they could use to get a bearing on allied ships sending radio messages in 1943? I ask because I just read an account of the sinking of a ship my father was on in July 1943 in the Indian Ocean by U-177. The ship's captain and radio opertor did not know at that time if a bearing could be determined from a HF radi
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Hello, I am looking for archived film taken from u-boats in 1943. I've tried the German archives but found nothing related to the u-boat I am interested in (U-177). The reason I am interested is because my father was on the Canadian merchant ship Jasper Park which was sunk on 6 July 1943 in the Indian Ocean by U-177. According to a description of the sinking in the book "A
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