02-27-08, 02:06 PM
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Lucky Jack 
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Originally Posted by M. Sarsfield
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U 862 was the only German U-boat in the Pacific and sunk an American merchant ship on the Australian east coast, all other German Monsun U-boats operated from the island of Penang (Malaysia) in the Indian Ocean and South China Sea.
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According to uboat.net, it looks like at least 4 operated in the Pacific...
http://uboat.net/maps/indian_ocean.htm This map only shows where the boats were sunk.
If they only restricted themselves to the Indian ocean, they wouldn't have built satellite bases in Singapore and Java. |
From the same site
U-862 IXD2 Class became (I 502)
http://uboat.net/boats/u862.htm
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