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Saturday, 9 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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U 124 (Kptlt. Johann Mohr) reported that she had contact with the convoy (TB.1) from 0300 to 0600, 9 ships, 4 destroyers from EO 5235 to 5269, 160°, 8 knots. She sank 1 tanker and 4 freighters, totaling 28,000 GRT.
Convoy No. 2 (TM.1):
After temporary loss of contact U 181 (IXD2; Kptlt. Wolfgang Lüth) sighted convoy of 3 tankers in DG 9517 at 1320. Last report from U 134 at 1530 from DG 9278.
Following reports of success have been received:
U 522 (Kptlt. Herbert Schneider): sank 2 tankers 16,000 GRT; probably sank 1 tanker 8,000 GRT.
U 436 (Kptlt. Günther Seibicke): torpedoed tankers on 8.1, 3 were sunk 31,000 GRT.
U 511 (Kptlt. Fritz Schneewind): sank "William Wilberforce" in DG 9116 (ship was not part of convoy) 5,004 GRT.
U 442 (Korvkpt. Hans-Joachim Hesse): sank 1 large tanker (heard to sink); sank 1 large fleet tanker and sank 1 abandoned tanker - both tankers probably torpedoed by U 575 (Kptlt. Günther Heydemann) 28,000 GRT; saw 1 tanker sink.
U 134 (Kptlt. Rudolf Schendel): sank 1 tanker with 3 hits at 1533. Tanker was in convoy. 8,000 GRT.
The last convoy formation is still being stalked (it probably consists of 2 convoy formations of 3 tankers each).
U 648 (Ltnt.z.S.d.R. Peter-Arthur Stahl) conducts exercises with the AGRU-Front Hela.
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Sunday,
10 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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Another Soviet offensive, Operation Ring, begins at Stalingrad.
Convoy No. 2 (TM.1):
At 1254 U 620 (Oblt. Heinz Stein) picked up a convoy formation. During the day U 571 (Kptlt. Helmut Möhlmann) and U 522 (Kptlt. Herbert Schneider) also contacted the convoy. At 2015 U 620 scored 2 hits on 2 tankers in staggered formation during an underwater attack at dusk. The same boat scored one hit in DH 5119 on a damaged tanker, she then shot the boat to pieces with gunfire. U 571 fired a miss from stern tube at a patrol vessel and probably scored 2 hits on a tanker (9,000 GRT). U 522 sank a tanker (9,000 GRT) and torpedoed a large tanker. Although 2 tankers had definitely been sunk, probably even 3, U 511 (Kptlt. Fritz Schneewind) reported in the morning that the remaining convoy formation consisted of 2 tankers, 2 submarines also agree with supposition that 2 convoy formations had been attacked. Two submarines continued the operation. The remaining boats had lagged behind after being depth-charged or after making attacks and they are proceeding to the supply rendezvous in DG 50.
The Russian BI-2 rocket-powered prototype aircraft takes its first flight at Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia (the second flight of the design), reaching an altitude of 1,100 meters and reaching the speed of 400 kilometers per hour.
U 648 (Ltnt.z.S.d.R. Peter-Arthur Stahl) conducts exercises with the AGRU-Front Hela.
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