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Wednesday, 13 January 1943 - Stettin
Conducting tactical exercises and training with the 4th Training Flotilla (Freg.Kpt. Heinz FISCHER), Stettin and AGRU-Front, (Kvt.Kpt.-Ing. H. MÜLLER).
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The call-up age for unmarried British women is lowered to 19.
According to a radio broadcast, an American bomber has sunk a German submarine in the Bay of Biscay. There is no evidence that it was one of our boats.
U 507 (KrvKpt. Harro Schacht) reported convoy in FB 5643, course 115°, speed 8 knots. Boat was ordered to attack.
U 403 (Kptlt. Heinz-Ehlert Clausen) reported patrol formation, 4 steam trawlers making a great deal of smoke, hove to in AE 38.
U 124 (Kptlt. Johann Mohr) reported regular naval air patrols from EO 66 to EP 47 observed from 11.1.
After U 66 (Kptlt. Friedrich Markworth) has carried out her special task (landing an agent in Morocco), she is to operate in DT 40 if situation permits.
Note: Casablanca Conference between Roosevelt and Churchill begins today.
U 459 (KrvKpt. Georg von Wilamowitz-Möllendorf) and Italian submarine J 28 carried out refueling.
U 648 (Ltnt.z.S.d.R. Peter-Arthur Stahl) interrupts exercises with the AGRU-Front Hela and commences Fast Charging Excercises in Gotenhafen-Oxhöft.
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Thursday,
14 January 1943 - Stettin
Conducting tactical exercises and training with the 4th Training Flotilla (Freg.Kpt. Heinz FISCHER), Stettin and AGRU-Front, (Kvt.Kpt.-Ing. H. MÜLLER).
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Soviet troops capture Velikiye Luki 200 miles west of Moscow.
U 217 (VIID; Kptlt. Kurt Reichenbach-Klinke) reported: No shipping yet met with in EO.
U 618 (Oblt. Kurt Baberg) reported: On 11.1. depth charged by destroyer in CG 5831. Otherwise only neutral shipping.
U 134 (Kptlt. Rudolf Schendel) sighted a convoy at 2300 in CF 3545 on a southerly course, no contact established. As the boats proceeding south were far behind the convoy, it was useless to try to launch an attack.
U 444 (Oblt. Albert Langfeld) sighted a seaplane in AK 6114.
U 441 (Kptlt. Klaus Hartmann) reported moderate air patrolling in AK 37 - 38.
U 333 (Oblt. Werner Schwaff; 'Ali' Cremer in hospital) reported land-based plane in AK 6.
Boats of Group "Delphin" (U 442, 436, 575, 571, 620) have refueled and replenished torpedoes from 'Milkcow' U 463 (KrvKpt. Leo Wolfbauer) and U 109 (IXB; Kptlt. Heinrich Bleichrodt); they are now proceeding according to instructions to the new patrol strip.
Enemy reported attack by Submarine in CA 50 (none of our boats there).
U 648 (Ltnt.z.S.d.R. Peter-Arthur Stahl) concludes Fast Charging Excercises in Gotenhafen-Oxhöft.
Yesterday, Dietrich Bonhoeffer became engaged to Maria von Wedemeyer.
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