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Thursday, 14 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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Soviet troops capture Velikiye Luki 200 miles west of Moscow.
U 217 (VIID; Kptlt. Kurt Reichenbach-Klinke) reported: No shipping yet met with in EO.
U 618 (Oblt. Kurt Baberg) reported: On 11.1. depth charged by destroyer in CG 5831. Otherwise only neutral shipping.
U 134 (Kptlt. Rudolf Schendel) sighted a convoy at 2300 in CF 3545 on a southerly course, no contact established. As the boats proceeding south were far behind the convoy, it was useless to try to launch an attack.
U 444 (Oblt. Albert Langfeld) sighted a seaplane in AK 6114.
U 441 (Kptlt. Klaus Hartmann) reported moderate air patrolling in AK 37 - 38.
U 333 (Oblt. Werner Schwaff; 'Ali' Cremer in hospital) reported land-based plane in AK 6.
Boats of Group "Delphin" (U 442, 436, 575, 571, 620) have refueled and replenished torpedoes from 'Milkcow' U 463 (KrvKpt. Leo Wolfbauer) and U 109 (IXB; Kptlt. Heinrich Bleichrodt); they are now proceeding according to instructions to the new patrol strip.
Enemy reported attack by Submarine in CA 50 (none of our boats there).
U 648 (Ltnt.z.S.d.R. Peter-Arthur Stahl) concludes Fast Charging Excercises in Gotenhafen-Oxhöft.
Yesterday, Dietrich Bonhoeffer became engaged to Maria von Wedemeyer.
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Friday,
15 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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Two companies of "Loreto" combat engineers battalion of the Italian Air Force are transferred by ship from Sicily, to Tunis; the remaining two companies of the 1st Air Force Assault Regiment "Amedeo d'Aosta" will remain in Sicily to repair airfields.
Our Luftwaffe raids Telepte Airfield in Tunisia three times and Youks-les-Bains Airfield in Algeria once. The enemy claims that a total of 15 of our aircraft are shot down during these attacks.
General:
Neither the "SC" nor the "HX" convoy (Group "Jaguar") were contacted. Unfortunately delays in refueling reduced Group "Jaguar" to 6 boats. Probably "SC" and "HX" passed to the north of the submarine disposition.
These two convoys bring the total up to four that have been missed since 31.12. It must be assumed that the enemy has left the convoy routes that he has been sailing for nearly 5 months and is again scattering his convoy routes. This development is a great drawback to attacks by our boat, but was only to be expected. As has already been emphasized, it was quite inexplicable why the English stuck so stubbornly to almost the same convoy routes for six months, which greatly simplified finding the convoys.
Probably the convoy routes to the north have been moved into the patrol areas of the Greenland and Iceland units. The next step for us to take is to make long dispositions with numerous boats so as to find out exactly what detours the enemy is making. Groups "Falke" and "Habicht" have been given a disposition for 16.1 against the "ONS" convoy with this end in view. If this operation is again unsuccessful, it will be necessary to patrol farther to the north, preferably in the area S.E. of Greenland.
The Pentagon, the new building in Virginia, United States, and the future home of the US Department of War, are dedicated.
U 648 (Ltnt.z.S.d.R. Peter-Arthur Stahl) installs Ice Protection Gear at in Danzig.
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