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Originally Posted by lolballz
didn't realize that the Type IX was not 'already' in service, September 1939.
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The Type IX was in service well before September. Of the fourteen original boats sent out on August 19th, 1939, five of them were Type IXs - U-37,38,39,40 and 41.
http://www.uboatarchive.net/BDU/BDUKTB30247.htm
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The Type IX commander was of a more independent mind. A privateer, of sorts, in modern times.
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Maybe later in the war. The first fourteen sent out to wait for the start of the war had strict orders to return home by the end of September, and they all followed those orders to the letter. They also had strict orders to go around the British Isles, and to avoid the Channel at all costs.