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U 115
- KTB -
First War Patrol
(17th war patrol overall)

Friday, 12 March 1943 - Great Belt/Skagerrak

During transit, received daily intel and Op.-Updates:
1) RAF bombers attack the Krupp steel plants in Essen.
2) Heavy fighting at Kharkov; Our troops evacuate Vyazma.
3) British destroyer HMS Lighting (G55) of Force Q is sunk in the Mediterranean by twelve German torpedo bombers and German motor torpedo boat S-158.
4) Tirpitz arrives at Bogen/Narvik.
5) In order to facilitate the transit of closed areas within Route "A" to uboats, the areas will be divided into the following sections:
A) Section "A" extends from W. France to 30° W.
B) Section "B" extends from 30° W. to the south to 30° N.
C) Section "C" extends from 30° N. to 15° N.
D) Section "D" extends from 15° N. to 05° S.
With the immediate closing of section "B" until further notice, only section "A" is open for attacks on isolated vessels.

1200 - Days Run: 311.5 nm ↗ (20h 50') - since Kiel
504cbm (6cbm in 20h); Weather and Sea unchanged since Kiel.

Bottoming boat outside of Kristiansand, due to darkness rapidly setting-in.

RST
KorvKpt.& Cmdr. U 115

Started new career in August 2019 to commemorate the beginning of WWII, 80 years before ...

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U 115
- KTB -
First War Patrol
(17th war patrol overall)

Saturday, 13 March 1943 - Kristiansand

Raising boat from sea bottom. Surfaced and approaching Kristiansand.

0849 - A Class 36A Destroyer is protecting the harbor entry. Entered Kristiansand via the southern approach path. Many fishing trawlers in Kristiansand roadsted; Manning flak guns.

0945 - Made fast Kristiansand - Maviken. (Fuel and lubrication oil, and fresh water supply).

1200 - Days Run: 176.2 nm

2303 - F.T. from B.d.U.: O.K.W.-Report:
A Chinese counter attack pushes the Japanese back across the Yangtze River.

(Off the record: The Führer visited Günther von Kluge's field headquarters at Smolensk. Anti-Hitler conspirators spoke to von Kluge beforehand, but they could not convince von Kluge to take action to arrest Hitler. Without von Kluge's help, the conspirators acted on their own, sneaking fused bombs disguised as brandy bottles aboard Hitler's aircraft, which took off for Rastenburg/Berlin, after dinner. The bombs failed to explode, and the conspirators had to take the risk, successfully, to retrieve the bottles before they were discovered.)

RST
KorvKpt.& Cmdr. U 115