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Tuesday, 12 January 1943 - Stettin
Conducting tactical exercises and training with the 4th Training Flotilla (Freg.Kpt. Heinz FISCHER), Stettin and AGRU-Front, (Kvt.Kpt.-Ing. H. MÜLLER).
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The Russian BI-2 rocket-powered prototype aircraft takes its second flight at Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, reaching an altitude of 2,190 meters and reaching the speed of 675 kilometers per hour.
Our troops withdraw from the Caucasus region to the Kuban bridgehead, while the Soviets launch Operation Spark, an offensive to restore communication and over-land supply route to Leningrad.
U 160 (Kptlt. Georg Lassen) has replaced U 522 (Kptlt. Herbert Schneider) in Group "SEEHUND" and has been ordered to make for GG 10 (Capetown).
U 459 (KrvKpt. Georg von Wilamowitz-Möllendorf) reported that 2 destroyers were waiting in the rendezvous square FD 25 where she was to meet the Italian submarine J 28. Rendezvous was moved to FD 34.
Final Remarks on convoy TM.1:
The operation begun at 1600 on 3.1.1943 took the desired course. The Group "DELPHIN" patrol picked up the convoy on 8.1. 0116 hours after U 514 (Kptlt. Hans Jürgen Auffermann) sent her last shadower report. The convoy continues somewhat south of the Great Circle, without altering its mean course. The convoy escort, which consisted mainly of fairly old gun boats and Corvettes, was inexperienced and not very dogged. Despite excellent hydrophone and Asdic conditions with very calm weather and sea, it did not succeed in badly damaging a single boat, let alone sinking one. Surface location was not observed. On the whole the results can be described as very good and particularly satisfactory for Operational Control, who with great good fortune were justified in making their hard decisions on 4.1. to desert the fast convoy proceeding to America which had been contacted once in favor of a convoy which could not be picked up for over 100 hours. 15 tankers totaling about 141,000 GRT were sunk. No submarines were damaged.
U 648 (Ltnt.z.S.d.R. Peter-Arthur Stahl) conducts exercises with the AGRU-Front Hela.
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Wednesday,
13 January 1943 - Stettin
Conducting tactical exercises and training with the 4th Training Flotilla (Freg.Kpt. Heinz FISCHER), Stettin and AGRU-Front, (Kvt.Kpt.-Ing. H. MÜLLER).
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The call-up age for unmarried British women is lowered to 19.
According to a radio broadcast, an American bomber has sunk a German submarine in the Bay of Biscay. There is no evidence that it was one of our boats.
U 507 (KrvKpt. Harro Schacht) reported convoy in FB 5643, course 115°, speed 8 knots. Boat was ordered to attack.
U 403 (Kptlt. Heinz-Ehlert Clausen) reported patrol formation, 4 steam trawlers making a great deal of smoke, hove to in AE 38.
U 124 (Kptlt. Johann Mohr) reported regular naval air patrols from EO 66 to EP 47 observed from 11.1.
After U 66 (Kptlt. Friedrich Markworth) has carried out her special task (landing an agent in Morocco), she is to operate in DT 40 if situation permits.
Note: Casablanca Conference between Roosevelt and Churchill begins today.
U 459 (KrvKpt. Georg von Wilamowitz-Möllendorf) and Italian submarine J 28 carried out refueling.
U 648 (Ltnt.z.S.d.R. Peter-Arthur Stahl) interrupts exercises with the AGRU-Front Hela and commences Fast Charging Excercises in Gotenhafen-Oxhöft.
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