U boat Far From Home. By David Stevens - The Epic voyage of U 862 to Australia and New Zealand waters. Story is mainly about U862 but mentions other Boats that were in the Far east as well.
I have read this book twice and im reading it again for the 3rd, thing is every time i read it theirs something new i think my memory is going :rotfl:
One part i read the other night is about how some German uboat crews while stationed at Japanese own ports use to put out food & cigarettes for the English prisoners when they would walk back at night to their prison camp which was located next to the German Barracks they felt sorry for them as they looked too thin. Even tho it was against the Japanese rules to feed the prisoners they still risked it, by planting boxes containing the goods in certain places where the engish prisoners could grab them when walking pass without getting caught.
Book has a very good database at the end on every U boat allocated to the Far East and its outcome.
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