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Friday, 04 September 1942 - Paris, Avenue Maréchal Maunoury
Today marks the last sinking by one of our boats in the Gulf of Mexico (U 171, Kptlt. Günther Pfeffer; Mexican Steam Tanker 'Amatlan", about 60 miles off Tampico, Mexico; 10 torpedoes were expended on this attack!).
The coast of Guyana, South America, has been added to the operational areas of our boats.
Last month, the Allies have introduced a High Frequency Direction Finder device, called 'Huff-Duff'. With this technology, the enemy escorts are able to get a much more accurate fix on our transmitting U-boats, by means of simple triangulation. Often times, the boats in question are only a few miles from a convoy, yet perhaps out of radar range, but if two or more escorts have HF/DF contact, they are able get a quite accurate fix on the U-boat's position, at least good enough to considerably reducing the area needing to be to searched.
This new technical development is heavily affecting our wolfpack tactics, as the radio communications are essentiel to gather the group into position, and imposing more strict radio silence will make the forming of wolfpacks a lot harder.
The Bluie West Nine auxiliary station at Cruncher Island (Simiutak), Greenland, begins operations. It is guiding incoming aircraft toward Bluie West Eight airfield, and provides meteorological reports for the US Army Air Forces, patrolling the Atlantic.
Today, 251 British bombers (98 Wellington, 76 Lancaster, 41 Halifax, and 36 Stirling) attacked Bremen, damaging or destroying 71 industrial buildings and 1,821 houses; Our Flak shot down 12 bombers.
In Egypt, the New Zealand 5th Brigade and British 132nd Brigade, attacked our retreating Afrika Korps.
KvtKpt.& A I op
(convoy staff officer)
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Saturday, 12 September 1942 - Paris, Avenue Maréchal Maunoury
U 156 (Hartenstein) sank the British "Laconia" (19,695 GRT) at 0110 in FF 7721, course 3100. After torpedoing her, boat discovered that the ship had 1500 Italian prisoners of war on board. Group "Eisbär", including "Milk Cow" U 459 (von Wilamowitz-Möllendorf), and U 506 (Würdemann) and U 507 (Schacht), are ordered to proceed to the scene at once at high speed. An Italian boat (Cappellini) in the vicinity is also directed there. It is intended to make for "Bingerville" (French Ivory Coast) in the first place with the survivors. Meanwhile U 156 has taken 193 persons on board, including 21 British. Further orders will be given.
Today, Prince Emanuel Galitzine, great grandson of Russian emperor Paul I, in a specially modified Spitfire IX fighter, intercepted a high-flying pressurized Junkers Ju 86 over the Solent in southern England, at an altitude of over 42,000 feet, far higher than any other RAF fighter could attain. After evading four attempts by Galitzine to shoot down the intruder, the German bomber, expertly flown by Oberfeldwebel Horst Goetz, jettisoned its 550-pound bomb and escaped to land at Caen, France with only one cannon hole in its wing.
The 6th Army under General Friedrich Paulus, began a fresh offensive toward
Stalingrad, with artillery and aerial bombardments.The ground troops then reached the strategically vital hill 102 of Mamayev Kurgan, which overlooks the city. This hill, an important line of defence for centuries, will now see a bloody struggle by both sides, as it allows our troops to control the entire river, across which all Soviet supplies have to travel. By the end of today, the Soviet 62nd Army will have been reduced to 90 tanks, 700 mortars and 20,000 men.
Our troops in the Caucasus region, report the
first snow of winter.
KvtKpt.& A I op
(convoy staff officer