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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.

10-21-09, 07:15 PM	#1
BROJD A-ganger Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 77 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	U-Boat Targeting Wheel 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.