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Wednesday, 14 October 1942 - Bremen, AG Weser, Deutsche Schiff und Maschinenbau
Standing by during the final stages of construction of U 115.
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U 332 (Kptlt. Johannes Liebe) has observed no traffic since 9 Oct. in EO 18-14. Very heavy air activity at night at times. Boat is continuing to operate along the Capetown-Trinidad route discovered by Radio Intelligence.
U 516 (Korvkpt. Gerhard Wiebe) was chased by 2 S/M chasers, type PC 451 with D/C's on 13 Oct. in EO 1490. No radar observed. Intends to operate against the same traffic as U 332 on her way back.
U 455 (Kptlt. Hans-Henrich Giessler) chased a fast tanker in vain on 2 Oct. in CB 36. Lay close inshore S. of St. John's for 9 days. Slight sea and air patrol. Searchlight barrage off the main harbor. Altogether only 1 steamer and 1 tanker sighted. Moved away, as Gyro was out of order. Boat has been ordered to return.
U 126 (Kptlt. Ernst Bauer) engines are in working order and she is able to dive. She is making for the point ordered (FP 23).
U 590 (Kptlt. Heinrich Müller-Edzards) was hunted by a solitary patrol boat with hydrophones in ET 7354.
U 620 (Oblt. Heinz Stein) examined the Irish ship "Irish Pine" in AK 9583. Ship is continuing on her way to Dublin.
U 174 (Fregkpt. Ulrich Thilo) is proceeding via DS 3955 to deliver fuel and spare parts for radar interception gear to U 506 (Kptlt. Erich Würdemann) and "Milk Cow" U 459 (Kptlt. Georg von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff).
Our assault on the Stalingrad Tractor Factory, is aided by more than 2,000 sorties by aircraft of Luftflotte 4.
Our offensive in the Caucasus region, is suspended with the exception of 17th Army's attacks near Tuapse on the coast of the Black Sea.
The Soviet GKO orders all males between the ages of 15 and 55 living in the Soviet Union who are ethnic Romanians, Hungarians, and Italians, to be rounded up and employed as slave laborers. Ethnic Germans in Soviet territory have already been subjected to this persecution.
Prompted by signals from an orchestra conducted by legless RAF ace Douglas Bader, Canadian Flying Officer Hank Wardle and British officers Major Ronnie Littledale, Captain Pat Reid, and Lieutenant-Commander William Stephens escape from Oflag IV-C prisoners of war camp at Colditz Castle, Germany. All four will make it to Switzerland, fleeing with fake identifications by trains and on foot.
Before dawn, six Japanese destroyers land 1,000 troops on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands.
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Thursday, 15 October 1942 - Bremen, AG Weser, Deutsche Schiff und Maschinenbau
Commissioning of U 115 in Bremen
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Chief of the Armed Forces High Command Operations Staff, Colonel Alfred Jodl, suggests to Adolf Hitler to order Vichy France to strengthen its defenses in North Africa, as intelligence indicates a possible Allied attack; The Führer rejects this suggestion, as he believes the Italians will object to any moves that strengthen France.
U 67 (Kptlt. Günther Müller-Stöckheim) situation:
11 Oct. EO 1975 sighted freighter, course SE, 10 knots, EO 4352 via 1816 to 1422 nothing except 3 freighters of up to 4,000 GRT, course 310°, 9 knots. Subsequently 2 patrol vessels, severe bombing in EO 1816.
U 514 (Kptlt. Hans Jürgen Auffermann): Nothing sighted in EP 4920 to 70 up to 13 Oct., also nothing in EP 2560-2370.
U 156 (KrvKpt. Werner Hartenstein) operated without result in the area of Ascension. Airfield on the island, and strong air activity.
U 69 (Kptlt. Ulrich Gräf) sank a 6,500-GRT passenger ship escorted by a destroyer in BB 5190, course 40°. Boat suspects outward-bound convoys through the Canso Straits, and a further route for small convoys via BB 5450 to 5130.
After a steamer had been sunk, strong sea patrol and constant patrol by aircraft with radar in BA 36, BB 14, 18.
U 513 (IXC, Korvkpt. Rolf Rüggeberg) has completed refueling from U 757 (VIIC, Kptlt. Friedrich Deetz).
Enemy aircraft reported U-boats 3 times probably in AK.
German Stuka dive bombers of Luftflotte 4, fly 900 individual sorties against Soviet positions at the Stalingrad Tractor Factory, wiping out several Soviet regiments. German Luftwaffe unit I./KG 100 (flying He 111 bombers), briefly returns to Stalino (now Donetsk), Ukraine, to conduct three bombing raids on Stalingrad.
Robert Oppenheimer is appointed, to coordinate the scientific research of the Manhattan Project at Site Y, a location yet to be finalized.
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