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Thursday, 24 September 1942 - Paris, Avenue Maréchal Maunoury
The Führer relieves General Franz Halder from command as Chief of Staff, replacing him with General Kurt Zeitzler.
U 217 (VIID; Oblt. Kurt Reichenbach-Klinke) took over sick man from U 201 (Oblt. Günther Rosenberg, formerly, Kptlt. Adalbert Schnee).
U 441 (Kptlt. Klaus Hartmann) has been ordered to enter Drontheim because a member of the crew is seriously ill.
U 171 (Kptlt. Günther Pfeffer) and U 164 (Korvkpt. Otto Fechner), refueled from 'Milk Cow' U 461 (Korvkpt. Wolf-Harro Stiebler).
Japanese submarine I-165 sinks US freighter 'Losmar', 220 miles west of the southern tip of India.
Australian destroyer HMAS Nizam sinks a Vichy French merchant ship southwest of Madagascar.
Our 94th Infantry Division and 24th Panzer Division effectively wipe out all Soviet units in the southern pocket in Stalingrad.
Our Armeegruppe A, launches an assault against Tuapse on the Black Sea.
Our Luftwaffe bombers attack Hastings and Seaford in southeastern England.
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KvtKpt.& A I op
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Friday, 25 September 1942 - Paris, Avenue Maréchal Maunoury
I'm getting itchy feet. Being able to serve on the B.d.U. staff has been a great honor and a very rewarding experience. However, I feel like, that our war effort would be served much better, if I were in command of a combat boat at the front line. With more of the new long-range IXD2 boats becoming available, I want to seize the opportunity to take a new boat and crew into combat.
I approach B.d.U. with my request and he fully understands and agrees with my intentions, and merely asks me to report back to him after the weekend, as he will have to check on the availability of new boats and a suitable replacement for me on the B.d.U. staff.
With the Führer relieving Chief of the Army General Staff, Colonel-General Franz Halder, and appointing General Kurt Zeitzler to succeed him, the responsibility for the employment of General Staff Corps personnel, is also taken away from the Chief of the General Staff and given to the Army Personnel Office, which is directly subordinate to the Führer.
U 177 (IXD2; Kptlt. Robert Gysae), on 23 Sept., 0605h, 1 P.O. overboard (Bootsmannmaat Erwin Henning). The present distribution of the main ballast tanks causes the boat to have a decided tendency to dip into the swell.
U 512 (Kptlt. Wolfgang Schultze) reported that "Monte Gorbea" (Esp) was recognized as a neutral vessel before she was torpedoed. Reasons for suspecting that she was a camouflaged English vessel were insufficient to warrant sinking. The Commanding Officer will have to face a court martial. All boats at sea have been informed.
(It will not come to the court martial, as U 512 will be sunk on 2 October 1942, north of Cayenne, French Guiana, by depth charges from a US B-18A-Bolo aircraft, 99th BS USAAF/71; 51 dead and 1 survivor.
The sole survivor, Matrosengefreiter Franz Machon, will spend 10 days on a life raft which the aircraft will have dropped to his aid, before being rescued by the US destroyer USS Ellis (DD-154); He will survive partly by killing and eating seabirds that attack him while he lays exposed on the raft.)
RAF Mosquito aircraft conduct a daring low-level raid on the Gestapo Headquarters in Oslo, Norway.
After sundown, our Luftwaffe attack Penzance, southwestern England.
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KvtKpt.& A I op
(convoy staff officer)