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U 115 - First War Patrol (2nd leg) - Stalemate on the Eastern Front
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Started new career in August 2019 to commemorate the beginning of WWII, 80 years before ... +++++++ 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. RST
KorvKpt.& Cmdr. U 115
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