[Kapitän]

Originally Posted by Kapitän

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

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Monday, 10 March 1941 - Memel

24th Flotilla (Korvkpt. Hannes Weingärtner)

Reichsminister Todt is in Lorient today:

B.d.U. is requesting Uboat Bunkers up to the maximal possible number of,

- 30 Uboats in Lorient,
- 20 Uboats each in Brest and St.Nazaire,
- also, for La Pallice, which would contribute repair stations for additonal 9-10 Uboats and
- also, Uboat Bunkers in Bergen and Drontheim.

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

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Tuesday, 11 March 1941 - Memel

24th Flotilla (Korvkpt. Hannes Weingärtner)

In September 1940, US President Roosevelt negotiated the famous "Destroyer-for-bases"-Agreement, under which 50 obsolete "four-pipers" US WWI destroyers were exchanged for a 99-year lease of several British bases in the Western Hemisphere. The rational behind this was, that these bases might one day become critical to US defences.

Following this, the Lend-Lease Act is born:

The Lend-Lease Act was approved today by the US Congress. This act will give President Roosevelt almost unlimited freedom in directing supplies, tanks, aircraft and ammunition to the war effort in Europe, effectively ending US neutrality. One of the aspects of the Lend Lease Act are SAM ships, Liberty Ships, that will be lent to Britain.

(By the time the war will have ended, the Lend-Lease program will have extended to over $41 billion in aid to more than 40 nations - some sources will say, the aid was as high as $50 billion - Britain will have received the biggest share or roughly $30 billion and the Soviets about $11 billion. China will have gotten $1 billion. Less than $10 billion of that aid will never be repaid, making this appear more like a donation, than the support it really was supposed to be).

"This will no doubt, make our own Uboat operations much more complex!"

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