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04-02-23, 01:57 AM
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Transiting the Bay of Biscay
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+++++++ U 115 - KTB - First War Patrol (17th war patrol overall) Friday, 2 April 1943 - Bay of Biscay - 0550 - Morning Dawn. 0656 - Sunrise. Weather and Sea unchanged in 2 days and 3h. 0813 - Qu.7355BF - 0823 - Qu.7355BF center right - FuMB and Magic Eye Detection in 182°true, E=15500. 0840 - Diving for FuMB and Magic Eye Detection. Sound contact warship bearing 119°, E=11000, medium speed on course 340°. Boat remains submerged. T=20. 0907 - Second sound contact with warship bearing 95°, E=37000, fast, on course 252°. 0928 - S-Tiefe. Distance to first sound contact is 20000m. Lost second sound contact. 0930 - Surfaced after 50min. and 2.4nm. Weather and Sea unchanged. 0931 - Boat ventilated. 1/3-Ahead. 1200 - Qu.7365BF - Days Run: 222.0nm - ↗ 219.6nm (23h 10') - ↘ 2.4nm (50') Total: 4311.8 nm (20days 14h 17') - ↗ 4053.6 nm (16days 16h 46') - ↘ 258.2 nm (3days 21h 31') On course 90°; 392cbm (8cbm in 24h); Weather and Sea unchanged in 2 days and 8h. 1830 - Qu.8155BF - 1927 - Sundown. Weather and Sea unchanged in 2 days and 15.5h. Cmdr.: U 648 (Ob.Ltnt.z.S.d.R. Peter-Arthur Stahl) concludes her Final War Patrol Outfitting and Op.-Briefing in Kiel. RST
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04-03-23, 02:08 AM
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Transiting the Bay of Biscay
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+++++++ U 115 - KTB - First War Patrol (17th war patrol overall) Saturday, 3 April 1943 - Bay of Biscay - 0005 - Outgoing F.T.: To B.d.U.: Will be at entry point Gabel on 4 April, 0000. - RST - 0225 - Qu.8246BF center right - FuMB and Magic Eye Detection in 170°true, E=18000. Boat remains surfaced. 0241 - Qu.8254BF center left - FuMB Detection 0225 now in 187°true, E=19000 - seems to be on course 222°, speed 4-5kn. 0411 - Qu.8255BF - 0530 - Morning Dawn. 0642 - Sunrise. Weather and Sea unchanged in 3 days and 3h. 1200 - Qu.8346BF - Days Run: 227.5nm - ↗ 227.5nm (24h) - On course 90°; 386cbm (6cbm in 24h) Total: 4539.3 nm (21days 14h 17') - ↗ 4281.1 nm (17days 16h 46') - ↘ 258.2 nm (3days 21h 31') Weather and Sea unchanged in 3 days and 8h; 11 internal torpedoes. 1352 - Qu.8355BF - 1915 - Sundown. Weather and Sea unchanged in 3 days and 15.5h. 2310 - Qu.9155BF center right - FuMB and Magic Eye Detection of A/C in 119° true, E=6600. In due course, continued FuMB and Magic Eye Detection with A/C in different directions and distances. Appears to be of own escort airplane patrolling the escort point. 2334 - Qu.9155BF - Course 122°. 2346 - Arrived at escort point Gabel. Course 70°. (No escort sighted). Cmdr.: U 648 (Ob.Ltnt.z.S.d.R. Peter-Arthur Stahl) leaves Kiel for her First War Patrol, acc. Op.-Order 54. RST
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04-04-23, 01:06 AM
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+++++++ U 115 - KTB - First War Patrol (17th war patrol overall) Sunday, 4 April 1943 - Bay of Biscay - 0003 - Entering approach path escorted by own A/C. The entire time, several FuMB and Magic Eye Detections - seem to be 2-3 A/C. 0520 - Morning Dawn. 0629 - Sunrise. Weather and Sea unchanged in 4 days and 2.5h. 0722 - Radar Detection with Surface Vessel in 70°true; E=7500. It is our escort. Wind and Sea subsiding somewhat, weather is clearing up. 0735 - SE7/6, decreasing, shifting East, partly cloudy, light haze, visibility 3.5nm, >1000mb. Taking on escort (1 Escort Destroyer und 3 R-Boats); Bf110's continue to patrol approach path. 0836 - Course 110°. 1200 - Qu.9234BF - Days Run: 228.0nm - ↗ 228.0nm (24h) Total: 4767.3 nm (22days 14h 17') - ↗ 4509.1 nm (18days 16h 46') - ↘ 258.2 nm (3days 21h 31') On course 110°; ENE7/6, partly cloudy, light haze, visibility 3.5nm, >1000mb; 380cbm (6cbm in 24h); 11 internal torpedoes; Battery 97%. 1228 - Arrived at exit point of approach path. Releasing escort. Course 90°. 1300 - ENE4/3, partly cloudy, light haze, visibility 3.5nm, >1000mb. Starting repair of Flak guns. 1325 - Patrol boat (M-Boat) on opposite course to our port beam. 1419 - Course 135°. Flak guns repaired. Three 3-Mast-Schooners are patrolling the Gironde Estuary. 1533 - Qu.9341BF - Course 140°. Entering Bordeaux. 1615 - Making fast in the Box. Mooring boat. 1615 - Qu.9344BF - Since Etmal: 41.5nm - ↗ 41.5nm (4h 15') Total: 4808.8 nm (22days 18h 32') - ↗ 4550.6 nm (18days 21h 01') - ↘ 258.2 nm (3days 21h 31') Arrived Bordeaux: ENE7/6, partly cloudy, light haze, visibility 3.5nm, >1000mb; 379cbm (1cbm in 4h); 11 internal torpedoes; Battery 97%. Clearing out of boat and placing boat in dry-dock. Crew standing by and guarding the boat during the shipyard time. Cmdr.: Upon arrival in Bordeaux received word that RAF bombers conducted a raid on Kiel during the night and that Soviet troops launched the Taman Offensive Operation in an attempt to push our troops out of the Taman Peninsula in the Caucasus. RST
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04-05-23, 01:22 AM
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12. Unterseebootsflottille - Bordeaux
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+++++++ U 115 - KTB - First War Patrol (17th war patrol overall) Monday, 5 April 1943 - 12th U.-Flotilla Bordeaux - Debriefing with F.d.U. (Korvkpt. Klaus Scholz; ex U 108) Totals of 1st leg of the 1st war patrol with U 115 (17th war patrol overall): - Torpedo hits: None - Torpedo misses: 4 T-3/Pi39H on fast Escort Carrier at great distance and in medium-heavy swell. - Torpedo failures: None - Crash Dives: 18 from airplanes (mainly in Iceland Passage) - Depth Charges/Fliebos: 80 from airplanes (one from warships). The Bold-2 was not deployed. Pressure hull: 95% (Accumulated damage: 5%); Safe Diving Depth is now 218.5m (historic specification max.230m x 95%); Honour points: None (Accumulated: None) Daily F.d.U. Briefing O.K.W.-Report: a) Major General Theo Osterkemp is appointed the commanding officer of Jagdfliegerführer Sizilien and charged with safeguarding Axis flights between Sicily and Tunisia, while the Allies launch Operation Flax, a concentrated effort to destroy Axis capability to supply Tunisia by air. B.d.U.-Report: a) U 648 (Ob.Ltnt.z.S.d.R. Peter-Arthur Stahl) arrives at Kristiansand for Fuel and Fresh Water Supply. B-Dienst Report: a) Aircraft Carrier USS Ranger (CV-4) arrived at Argentia, Newfoundland. RST
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04-06-23, 03:28 AM
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12. Unterseebootsflottille - Bordeaux
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+++++++ U 115 - KTB - First War Patrol (17th war patrol overall) Tuesday, 6 April 1943 - 12th U.-Flotilla Bordeaux (Korvkpt. Klaus Scholz; ex U 108) - Daily F.d.U. Briefing O.K.W.-Report: a) Axis forces fell back from Wadi Akarit towards Enfidaville, Tunisia, as the British Eighth Army began linking up with US II Corps. B.d.U.-Report: a) Captured French torpedo boats Bombarde, La Pomone, and L'Iphigénie, been in Italian service since Dec 1942, are transferred on loan to the German Navy. b) U 648 (Ob.Ltnt.z.S.d.R. Peter-Arthur Stahl) leaves Kristiansand for a stop-over in Egersund, due to an escort vessel suffering damage from the high sea; leaving Egersund again in the evening without escort. c) After leaving the Bay of Biscay U 124 (KrvKpt. Johann Mohr; ex Kptlt. Georg-Wilhelm Schulz) operated against a convoy bound for Gibraltar and reported it for the last time on the 2nd April in CF 3652. Since there were no other boats in the vicinity, U 124 was ordered not to send in further reports on contacts. Later orders to report her position were not answered. She must be considered lost. There is no information from any sighting or operational report. Cmdr.: Mohr and U 124 are gone! +++++++ Uboat disposition report from 2 April 1943 Supreme Command of the Navy (O.K.M.) S. O. Only. U-boats as of 1.April 1943 I. In service on the 1st March 1943: 411 (412 incl. U 115) Put into commission in March: 27 Total: 438 (439 incl. U 115) Losses in March: 15 (incl. 1 in home waters, U 5) In service on 1st April 1943: 423 (424 incl. U 115) Foreign submarines: 9 Total: 432 (433 incl. U 115) Losses in March: a) In the Atlantic: Type VIIc: U 87 - 444 - 633 - 432 - 384 - 665 - 469 = 7 Type IX: U 529 - 130 - 163 - 156 - 524 = 5 b) In the Mediterranean: Type VII: U 83 - 77 = 2 c) At home: Type II: U 5 = 1 Total: 15 Details: a) In the Atlantic: Type VIIc: 1) U 87 (Kptlt. Joachim Berger) - Arrived in the Atlantic. Refueled from U 461 for the last time on the 26th February in the North Atlantic. Then did not report again. 2) U 444 (Oblt. Albert Langfeld) - 2nd voyage. Last report was contact with convoy on 11th March in the North Atlantic. Probably sunk by convoy escort. 3) U 633 (Oblt. Bernhard Müller) - 1st voyage. Last report on 3rd March after passing Iceland Passage. No further information. 4) U 432 (Kptlt. Hermann Eckhardt) - Old boat (ex Kptlt. Heinz-Otto Schultz), new Commanding Officer. Last report on the 10th March S.E. Greenland. No information. 5) U 384 (Oblt. Hans-Achim von Rosenberg-Gruszcynski) - 2nd voyage. Last report on 19th March S of Greenland. Probably sunk by convoy escort. 6) U 665 (Oblt.d.R. Hans-Jürgen Haupt) - 1st voyage. Last report on 21st March that she had been off La Pallice for 36 hours. Probably sunk by aircraft bombs. 7) U 469 (Oblt. Emil Claussen) - 1st voyage. No report, no information. Type IXc: 8) U 529 - (Kptlt. Georg-Werner Fraatz) - New boat (IXc/40), experienced Commanding Officer. Last report was on weather S. of Iceland. No information regarding loss. 9) U 130 (Oblt. Siegfried Keller) - Old boat (ex KrvKpt. Ernst Kals), new Commanding Officer. Last report on 12th March in the North Atlantic. Probably sunk by convoy. 10) U 163 (KrvKpt. Kurt-Eduard Engelmann) - 3rd voyage. No report, no information. 11) U 156 (KrvKpt. Werner Hartenstein) - Old boat. Last report on 7th March from the Caribbean. No information. 12) U 524 (Kptlt. Freiherr Walter von Steinaecker) - 2nd voyage. b) In the Mediterranean: Type VIIc: 13) U 83 (Kptlt. Ulrich Wörisshoffer) - Old boat (ex Kptlt. Hans-Werner Kraus), new Commanding Officer. West Mediterranean. 14) U 77 (Oblt. Otto Hartmann) - Old boat (ex Kptlt. Heinrich Schonder), new Commanding Officer. Badly damaged by aircraft bombs. Sunk 15 miles off Cap de la Nao (Spain). 9 men rescued. c) In Home Waters: Type II: 15) U 5 (IIA; Oblt. Hermann Rahn) - Loss when she tried to dive deep contrary to orders. 16 men rescued. II. Distribution: a) Operational: II - 3 VIIa - 0 VIIb/c - 159 VIId - 3 IXb/c - 53 IXD1 - 2 IXD2 - 6 (7 incl. U 115) XB - 3 XIV - 6 Total - 235 (236 incl. U 115) b) On Trial: II - 0 VIIa - 0 VIIb/c - 93 VIId - 0 IXb/c - 20 IXD1 - 0 IXD2 - 6 XB - 2 XIV - 3 Total - 124 c) Training: II - 33 VIIa - 4 VIIb/c - 25 (12 of these temporarily transferred for training purposes) VIId - 0 IXb/c - 2 IXD1 - 0 IXD2 - 0 XB - 0 XIV - 0 Total - 64 d) Total overall: II - 36 (a further 3 temporarily out of service for the Black Sea) VIIa - 4 VIIb/c - 277 VIId - 3 IXb/c - 75 IXD1 - 2 IXD2 - 12 (13 incl. U 115) XB - 5 XIV - 9 TOTAL Overall - 423 (424 incl. U 115) III. In March: Further boats detailed for operations: 20 Total number increased by: + 12 Number of operational boats increased by: + 6 Number of trial boats increased by: + 4 Number of training boats increased by: + 2 IV. Distribution of Operational Boats on 1st April 1943: In the Atlantic: 194 (195 incl. U 115) In the Mediterranean: 17 In the North Sea: 21 (to be made up to 23 during April) In the Black Sea: 3 Total: 235 (236 incl. U 115) V. During the Atlantic in March: Daily average at sea: 116 boats. (117 incl. U 115) Of these, in operations area: 49 boats. Outbound transit: 67 boats. (68 incl. U 115) Of the later on return passage: 28.5 boats. VI. Set out in March: From home waters: 20 boats (21 incl. U 115; 7 into North Sea) From Western France: 46 boats RST
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04-07-23, 04:52 AM
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12. Unterseebootsflottille - Bordeaux
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+++++++ U 115 - KTB - First War Patrol (17th war patrol overall) Wednesday, 7 April 1943 - 12th U.-Flotilla Bordeaux (Korvkpt. Klaus Scholz; ex U 108) - Daily F.d.U. Briefing O.K.W. Report: a) The Führer and Benito Mussolini began a four-day meeting near Salzburg, Austria, discussing the war effort. b) Bolivia declared war on the Axis powers. c) The Luftwaffe assigned 148 fighters to Jagdfliegerführer Sizilien. d) Claus von Stauffenberg was seriously injured when his car was strafed by Allied aircraft in North Africa. e) British and American troops linked up on the El Guettar-Gabès road in Tunisia, ending the Battle of El Guettar. B.d.U. Report: a) According to a report from the Attache Group, about 50 Germans have landed on the Canaries. These are the crew of U 167 (IXC/40) which was so badly damaged by a British aircraft in DH 96 that the Commanding Officer (KrvKpt. Kurt Sturm) had to scuttle the boat. The whole crew was rescued. B-Dienst Report: a) Auxiliary Aircraft Carrier USS Bogue (CVE-) departed Argentia, Newfoundland bound for Philadelphia Navy Yard for emergency repairs to her aircraft catapult. RST
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04-08-23, 03:59 AM
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12. Unterseebootsflottille - Bordeaux
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+++++++ U 115 - KTB - First War Patrol (17th war patrol overall) Thursday, 8 April 1943 - 12th U.-Flotilla Bordeaux (Korvkpt. Klaus Scholz; ex U 108) - Daily F.d.U. Briefing O.K.W.-Report: a) US President Roosevelt froze wages and prices of utilities in order to prevent inflation. He also banned workers from changing jobs unless the switch would further the war effort. B.d.U.-Report: a) U 159 (Kptlt. Helmut Friedrich Witte) which is no longer operational owing to extensive damage sustained from a/c Wabos during attack of Wolfpack Seeräuber on convoy RS 3 off the coast of Spanish/Western Sahara, will be ordered to DG 69 and will rendezvous there with U 455 (Oblt. Hans-Martin Scheibe). It is intended to pick up the crew of U 167 (KrvKpt. Kurt Sturm) from the Canaries with U 455 and to transport them home later, some on each of these two boats. b) U 203 (Kptlt. Hermann Kottmann; ex Mützelburg) sighted in BE 1689 a large vessel type "Queen Elizabeth" course S.W.; contact lost in view of high speed. B-Dienst Report: a) The first modified Lancaster ED765/G ("G" for "Guard" denoting the special security arrangements required) bomber was delivered to the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, Hampshire, England, for planned attacks against German dams. RST
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