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U 115
- KTB -
First War Patrol
(17th war patrol overall)

Tuesday, 1 June 1943 - West of Ascension

- 4th week at sea completed -

0900 - Qu.1348FL -

1045 - Early Morning Dawn. 7/8-Moon setting in the East.

1139 - Sunrise. Weather and Sea unchanged in 20h.

1200 - Qu.1613FL - Days Run: 186.8nm - ↗ 184.4nm (23h 20') - ↘ 2.4nm (40')
Total: 5042.0 (27tg 22h) - ↗ 4830.6nm (24tg 17h 19') - ↘ 211.4nm (3tg 04h 41')
442.5cbm (2.5cbm in 24h); Battery 94%; Course 169°; 3xT-3, 2xEtoFat, 1xT-4; 9xBold; SSE6/5, clear, very good visibility, >1000mb.

1306 - Qu.1616FL - Crash dive for training. T=10 after 39 Sec. (1st Watch with Diving Officer).

1309 - A-Meter.

1310 - Setting for T=20 at 96rpm.

1319 - Leveled-off at Reception Depth (9min. for 60m). Battery 94%; Compressed Air Supply 280Atü.

1323 - Surfaced after 17min. and 1.1nm.

1327 - Compressed Air Supply filled. 2x225RPM/8kn.

1606 - Qu.1657FL - Crash dive for training. T=10 after 39 Sec. (2nd Watch with Diving Officer).

1609 - A-Meter.

1610 - Setting for T=20 at 96rpm.

1619 - Leveled-off at Reception Depth (9min. for 60m). Battery 93%; Compressed Air Supply 280Atü.

1623 - Surfaced after 17min. and 1.1nm.

1626 - Compressed Air Supply filled. 2x225RPM/8kn.

2026 - Qu.1925FL - Crash dive for training. T=10 after 41+ Sec. (3rd Watch with Diving Officer).

2029 - A-Meter.

2030 - Setting for T=20 at 96rpm.

2039 - Leveled-off at Reception Depth (9min. for 60m). Battery 91.5%; Compressed Air Supply 280Atü.

2043 - Surfaced after 17min. and 1.1nm.

2046 - Compressed Air Supply filled. 2x225RPM/8kn.

2306 - Incoming Radio Reports:

From O.K.W.:
a) The Russian Airforce attacked rear communications and airfields at Smolensk, Orel and Bryansk.
b) British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden announced that British casualties in first three years of war were 92,089 killed, 226,719 missing, 88,294 wounded, and 107,891 captured.
c) While serving time in prison for embezzlement, Fritz Kuhn, leader of the dissolved, pro-Nazi, German American Bund, has his American citizenship rewoked.

From B.d.U.:
a) In search of U 563 (Oblt. Gustav Borchardt), 23 Ju 88's carried out a search without result. Sea was force 5. Nothing was seen of the crew. In air battles the Ju's shot down 4 English aircraft, including 2 Wellington bombers and one large carrier aircraft (Douglas).
b) U 409 (Oblt. Hanns-Ferdinand Massmann) was observed in CG 9472 during her passage through the Straits of Gibraltar. She was ordered to move away to the W and attempt to break through again after about 48 hours. The same goes for U 594 (Kptlt. Friedrich Mumm).

B-Dienst Report:
a) Auxiliary Aircraft Carrier USS Card (CVE-11) arrived in Casablanca Harbor, Morocco.
b) Alerted by US direction-finders, the Brazilian police raid the house of German-born Werner Waltemath discovering his Abwehr radio, microfilm and other espionage paraphernalia hidden in a cavity under the living room floor. He will receive a twenty-five-year prison sentence, while a fellow–expatriate, Hans-Christian von Kitze, whom he had recruited to his spy group will become a double agent for the British.

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KorvKpt.& Cmdr. U 115

Started new career in August 2019 to commemorate the beginning of WWII, 80 years before ...

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U 115
- KTB -
First War Patrol
(17th war patrol overall)

Wednesday, 2 June 1943 - South-Atlantic

0700 - Qu.4364FL - Diving for Torpedo Maintenance and Trial Dive.

0705 - T=50. Beginning torpedo maintenance.

0756 - Tube I serviced.

0814 - Tube II pulled - Watch Change at 0805 -

0848 - Tube II serviced.

0939 - Tube III serviced (Tubes I-III are T-3/Pi39H). - Break until 1000 -

1051 - Tube V serviced (EtoFat/Pi39H). - Break until 1100 -

1148 - Sunrise. CO₂ Warning at 1.7% (after 4h 48min.).

1151 - Tube VI serviced (T-4/Pi39H).

1158 - At Reception Depth.

1200 - Qu.4391FL - Days Run: 158.3nm - ↗ 142.0nm (18h 09') - ↘ 16.3nm (5h 51')
Total: 5200.3 (28tg 22h) - ↗ 4972.6nm (25tg 11h 28') - ↘ 227.7nm (3tg 10h 32')
441cbm (1.5cbm in 24h); Battery 82.9%; Course 169°; T=20; CO₂ = 1.8%; 3xT-3, 2xEtoFat, 1xT-4; 9xBold. - Lunch Break -

1222 - A-20

1300 - Beginning of Trial Dive acc. B.d.U. Standing Order No.507 & No.308. 145rpm/3kn.

1341 - Boat is safe and secure at 2A-Meter.

1345 - Setting for T=20 with 96rpm.

1402 - Reception Depth. (21min. for 140m). Battery 77%; Compressed Air Supply 275 Atü; CO₂ 2.1%.

1410 - Surfaced after 2h 10' and 6.4nm - since Etmal (Total: 7h 10' and 19.4nm). Weather and Sea unchanged in 46h.

1414 - Boat ventilated and Compressed Air Supply filled.

2307 - Incoming Radio Reports:

From O.K.W.:
a) The Japanese are in full retreat from the Yangtze River.
b) The Russian Airforce attacked Kiev and Roslavl, while the Luftwaffe attacked Kursk.

From O.K.M.:
a) USAAF 99th Fighter Squadron made its combat debut with its P-40L fighters, strafing Italian positions on Pantelleria island southwest of Sicily, Italy.

From B.d.U.:
a) U 195 (IXD1; KrvKpt. Heinz Buchholz) situation report: nothing sighted in KZ 7558 - 24 - 16 - 15 - 19. Horizontal Radar location in KZ 1630, presumably aircraft. Return passage.
b) U 178 (IXD2; KrvKpt. Wilhelm Dommes) attacked the convoy, which she had already reported, on 1 June in KP 8779 and scored 2 hits. Boiler explosion probable. Effect not observed owing to heavy seas, as accurate depth keeping impossible.
c) U 667 (Kptlt. Heinrich-Andreas Schroeteler) beat off an attack by a Lockheed Hudson on 26.5. in AF 4915 and scored several hits on a Catalina on 29.5. in AE 6714 during an 80 minute action. No damage. No radar observed in either attack. 2 small sailing vessels observed on patrol in the Iceland Passage and 2 destroyers with deterrent D/c's.

2322 - Sundown. Weather and Sea unchanged in 55.5h.

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KorvKpt.& Cmdr. U 115