[Kapitän]

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Started new career in August 2019 to commemorate the beginning of WWII, 80 years before ...

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Monday, 30 June 1941:
Arrived at the 5th Training Flotilla, Danzig/Hela (Kvt.Kpt. MOEHLE) and AGRU-Front, (Kvt.Kpt.-Ing. MÜLLER).

Reichminister Dr. Todt, hands over the first 3 Uboat bunkers in St.Nazaire, after just 3 months of construction.

Operation "Barbarossa":
From 23 June to 02 July, the tank battle at Dubno - Lutsk/Luzk - Brody/Rivne is taking place. It is fought between the Panzer Group 1 of the Southern Army Group under Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt and strong armored forces of the Soviet Southwest Front under Colonel General Michail Kirponos. A total of 3,298 Soviet tanks (six mechanized corps) are fighting against 808 German (five tank divisions). The high command of the Wehrmacht, has allocated an additional seven divisions - the LI. and XXXIV. Army Corps - from the front reserve as reinforcements to the beleaguered 6th Army during the fighting.

We are in progress of winning the battle, as the Soviet troops have been put back on the defensive and their tank formations have almost been wiped out (about 2,000 Russian against 95 German tanks lost). The 22nd Mechanized Corps lost 90% of its tanks, the 8th and 15th Mechanized Corps 85–90%, the 9th and 19th Mechanized Corps 70% each, and the 4th Mechanized Corps 60% of its tanks. The 9th, 19th and 22nd Mechanized Corps only have 66, 35 and 33 tanks left due to heavy losses.

Our success over the strong Soviet tank units is enabling the rapid pursuit in the direction of Zhitomir and Korosten, where new Soviet counter-attacks are making the advance more difficult. General Potapov, the commander of the 5th Army, is further holding up our advancing troops by counter-attacks in order to save his own forces from the impending encirclement and to prepare the defense of Kiev. The battle for Kiev will not begin until mid-August.

After the tank battle near Prokhorovka as part of Operation Citadel in 1943, the battle near Dubno-Lutsk/Luzk-Brody/Rivne, will have been the second-largest tank battle of the Second World War.

Started new career in August 2019 to commemorate the beginning of WWII, 80 years before ...

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Tuesday, 1 July until Thursday, 3 July 1941:

- 5th Training Flotilla, Danzig/Hela (Kvt.Kpt. MOEHLE) and AGRU-Front, (Kvt.Kpt.-Ing. MÜLLER) -

Loading of Fuel, Ammunitions and Torpedoes:

Fuel: 208t = 240cbm (at 865kg/m³)

Ari and A/A ammunition:
- SK-C/32, 10.5cm: 150 x SpG; 30 x LkG
- 2 x M.G.-2cm-C/30: 8000 x PbG (1 x M.G.-2cm-C/30 instead of 1 x 3.7cm-SK-C/30)

Torpedoes:
- Tubes I-VI: G7e, K-b
- Bow above floor plates: 2 x G7e, K-b
- Bow under floor plates: 2x G7e, K-b & 2 x G7a, K-a
- Aft under floor plate: 2 x G7a, K-a
- Upper deck containers: not loaded (8 x G7a, K-a)
All with fuse Pi-G7H (only AZ / Pi-1 without MZ)