Hi, VEK ! I'll put a post on French specialized website forum right now ! Hope it will help !
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Hi, VEK ! Well, noted, SIR ! Enjoy your Sunday.
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Hi, John ! Thanks for the info, I'll check with Amazon/Abebooks. Enjoy your week-end.
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Hi, Volker ! I've checked right now, your signature and comments have been duly registered ! Bonne soirée.
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Welcome back,Volker ! I'll have to check again in LGB'book, but I remember that he spoke during "Bar Royal"opening scene of Der Alte as a peaceful Hapag captain.I'll come back to you with a more or less accurate translation of my French version. About your father's file in French MOD databank, I have spoken lately with our common friend Mr.Braeuer, and will send yo
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Done it yesterday, hope it may help, anyway, if we don't try, nothing will happen ! Good evening to everybody.
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Hi, John ! Thank you very much for the infos...Do you know if there is a book giving detailed technical description of IX type ? Enjoy your day.
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Hello,Jacques ! I'm really interested by any information about this boat. Suis intéressé par toute information à ce sujet. Bonne journée/Have a nice day.
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Bonsoir, Jacques, I'm French, but, if you don't mind , I'll put my answer in English... I think the boat you are looking for may be U-485,VII-C type, Commander KL Friedrich LUTZ,11°U-Flotille ( Bergen),which arrived in La Rochelle on 22/04/1945 and left on 29/04/1945.Scheduled destination unknown, for she surrendered in Gibraltar on 08/05/1945,following Dönitz's last order
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Hi,Pat ! It's definitely NOT HLW (I have a lot of pictures of him ), and this CO is at 99 % H.J. Hellriegel , who took over from HLW as U-96 commander. Have a nice day.
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Good evening, Ladies & Gentlemen ! Meine Damen und Herren , Guten Abend ! (I'm sure that our friend VEK will be pleased by his pupil's good manners...) More seriously, I've just finished reading " Count not the Dead ", by Michael L. Hadley, and I was surprised to see the magnitude of the uproar created by LGB as described in chapter " Buchheim's Wave &quo
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Hello,VEK ! You are right about jokes in France between 1940/1944 about "porte-épées"... In fact, this kind of daggers, together with their protection devices, were called by naughty french patriots " pompes à vélo", for they were rather similar in shape with bicycle pumps...The main joke, but quite dangerous, was to remove such trophies from drunk petty officers in buse
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Hi, Pat ! Lots of thanks for correcting my mistake, I've found the concerned page in Suhren's memoirs...In addition they were crew mates (35) and affected to the same flotilla in Brest during same period.The only excuse I can find, and I confess that's a poor one, is that these two commanders (Salman and Uphoff) had some physical resemblance in the pictures posted in CT section of
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Guten Tag, Freund ! I've read, and I'm pretty sure of that ( but now, I can't remember where, but the book was considered as a serious one ), that Salman and Suhren were both sharing the same taste for dirty jokes and very politically incorrect stories, most of them aiming top brass of 3rd. Reich...Perhaps I jumped too quickly to conclusions when writing they were good friends.It
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Hi,Denis,Paul and MPC, Some additionnal and I hope interesting information about U-9 and Iron Cross emblem, sources being CT section of this site and magazine U-BOOT IM FOCUS. When war started, all identification marks, n° and bronze eagle nationality markings were removed.Painted insignia were allowed in case-by-case bases, but not considered as official, first one being certainly Scapa Flow
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Thanks a lot, Scott ! I'll be interested by your 6 pages document about IX-C fuel system. Please send it at your convenience at following e-mail: jeannoelmuller@yahoo.fr Thanks in advance and good evening.
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Everett, In German, Mt stands for "Matrose",i.e.able & confirmed seaman.I may think that "Mate"in USN has the same meaning...Being French , any mistake is possible. Good evening.
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Hi, Paul, Check on this site 23rd and 29th Flotillas, the answer is there ! Good evening.
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Hi,Barry, Thanks a lot for your tip, as usual, quite interesting... You may also like, and I'm sure Paul will be too,by Googling "Prisoners of War-Werner Henke Ceremony". Bonsoir, my friend. Votre vieil ami.
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Lot of thanks, Scott ! Any idea of different fuel capacities ? Thanks in advance, and have a nice week-end
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Good evening, Saskia ! Have you got your copy ? If so, I hope you enjoyed it Have a nice week-end.
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Hi,Paul ! Enter "Werner Henke" in search engine, and you'll find a lot of very valuable information...To make it short, that's a typical case of "suicide through sentries". Enjoy your evening.
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Hi, Woody ! Try following link : There has been some exchange of messages in this forum about topic, use search engine with" U-Boat Im Focus" for further details. Good evening.
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Good morning to all , I'm looking for following technical data related to all types of all types of type IX U-Boote , excluding projects which never left the drawing boards...: Maximum fuel capacity , Normal one , Internal one (i.e. within pressure hull). Help would be greatly appreciated ! Thanks & Regards Enjoy your day.
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Hi, Nick and Paul, U-1009 sailed 2 war patrols , first one from 12/11/1944 up to 02/08/1945, departing from Bergen and arriving in Trondheim , CO : Oblt. zur See Dietrich Zehle , with no military results , and second one from 03/29/1945 up to 05/10/1945, departing from Trondheim and surrendering in Loch Eriboll , UK , i.a.w. Dönitz order to all u-boote to stop fighting issued on 05/04/1945 , CO
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Hello, MPC,Dennis and Paul, Iron crosses on U-9 conning tower were of two kinds : One was a fixture with imperial crown in its upper branch , a "W"( Standing for Kaiser's initial ?) in the middle , and 1914 in the lower branch.The other was a simpler Iron cross , painted, with no details . Please refer to uboataces website,insignia section. U-24 seems to have had a different embl
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I DO think so !!! And I'm quite sure I'm not the only one... Have a nice day.
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Hi, Paul, I have in my library french translation of Günther PRIEN's memories...For sure, he signed the book, but certainly after deep vetting by Goebbel's team.In any case, it was written in August 1940 for the original release, and Prien clearly states that he became a member of NSDAP in 1932. Perhaps this book is still available in English. Have a nice day.
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Hi, Scott ! Lots of thanks for your very detailed and interesting post.If available with you, following data are of some interest for me, and certainly for other contributors: Concerning IX type U-Boote,not only IX-C: -Maximum fuel qty. -Normal fuel qty, out of which external qty (Ballasts) and internal (Within pressure hull). I do hope that I'm not too demanding... Thanks in advance,
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Hi, Paul, I agree with your statement about Lüth and Brandi being the only two recipients of KC with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds. Hoyt has certainly been misguided, and I see no valid reason to grant an award to Suhren and to cancel it immediately after.Anyhow, I'll check with Suhren's autobiography "Wet Oak Leaves". Good evening.
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