Remembering the classics ...

[MarkShot]

I brought my camera out on our New Years patrol of 1940 and I thought I would share some photos.

Test dive after departing Kiel.

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A tanker is left burning off the Norwegian Coast.

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Rough waters spoiled our New Years meal.

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After a pair of sinkings, the British step up their patrols along the East Coast.

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We leave a lucky tanker smoking having fired our last fish and not having a deck gun. (New Years Resolution: Get a deck gun.)

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Back in Kiel, Adm. Doenitz, is suitably impressed. I'll get my deck gun and more.

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The year has only started and the tonnage race is on.

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