BROJD
10-21-09, 07:15 PM
On p. 423 of Clay Blair's Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunters, Blair writes that the rules and restrictions on U-Boats targeting ships during the first year of WWII were so complicated that the Kriegsmarine issued a special wheel device to sort out what could and couldn't be targeted.
Has anyone read or heard about this elsewhere? Does anyone have a photo or sample of one of these wheels? The Historian of the German Naval Association hasn't even heard of this.
Has anyone read or heard about this elsewhere? Does anyone have a photo or sample of one of these wheels? The Historian of the German Naval Association hasn't even heard of this.