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I am researching type II U-boats and I am in the book "U-boats, The Illistrated History Of The Raiders Of The Deep" by David Miller.
For anyone who has this book on page 20 he claims that the Type IIA had a single periscope yet the picture at the bottom of the page of U-1 shows what looks like two raised periscopes. ![]() Can anyone confirm (and what source) that Type IIA's and B's had only 1 periscope and it wasnt until the Type IIC's that a second scope was added?:hmm: |
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Here the IIA has only one scope;
http://www.u-boot-archiv.de/typen/typ_iia.html Here is a summary of the type II boats: http://www.uboataces.com/uboat-type-ii.shtml Here is a quote: Models A and B possessed a single periscope, while C and D incorporated a second attack periscope housed within the tiny conning tower. From: http://www.uboatwar.net/II.htm Hope this was helping..
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I am looking at Erminio Bagnasco's Submarines of World War Two (p.60) and, although there's no words on this point, there's a schematic there of the Type II that certainly seems to show two periscopes. The taller of the two is forward of the other.
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Thank you Seth and Kiwi....
I will assume the picture I see of U-1 in Millers book (A type IIA) the forward "periscope" is maybe a flagstaff or something. Anyone else with this book can confirm? Thanks again! |
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In our sim....
Does the Type IIA have the 2 periscopes?:hmm: |
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Well after going to several bookstores today and seeing some more pictures of Type IIA's and B's I have come to the conclusion that several of our trusted technical U-boat books are wrong. In every photo of the early Type II's there are, indeed, two periscopes and not one. All the books say that the second scope was added to the Type IIC's and D's but all the pictures show different.
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Related question: Does anyone ever use the observation scope? |
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