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Originally Posted by Osmium Steele
AAaaarrrggghhhhh!!!!
Stop throwing monkey wrenches into my potato salad!!
Next you'll be telling me that paint supply problems mean she might not have been freshly chipped and painted after her final training cruise; thus, went to sea all rusty and cruddy.
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*monkey wrench inbound*
Good question actually. According to uboat.net U-297 arrived from its training cruise in 31 Oct and departed to its patrol in 1 Nov. I doubt that crew had time for anything else but critical maintenance.
EDIT: Ooops... my bad it says "front boat" not patrol. What that actually means?
EDIT2: I missed that 25 Nov date when I first read you original post. Found that date later myself too after little googling.