Show Us Your D.I.D.'s

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Details of Loss
U-190 left Kiel for its first war patrol on 21 FEB 43 to patrol AM11 and was lost sometime on 06 MAR 43, NW of Scotland, probably due to air attack. U-190 had reported sinking 5 ships totalling 28,601 tons.

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Laufen zum Ziel

Why didn't I think of that? Great idea & I will be looking forward to your release. Maybe I can even hook it into to SHA under your name with credit to Uboat.net. Let me know what you think.

Here's the link to the portrait collection: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=148060

You may link to it however you like.

[RoaldLarsen]

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Name: REINHOLD REIF
Date of Birth: 11JUN14
Place of Birth: FLENSBURG
Date of Intake: 01APR37 (CREW 37)

Promotions
15JAN38 SEEKADETT
01DEC38 FÄHNRICH Z. S.
01OCT40 OBERFÄHNRICH Z. S.
01JAN41 LEUTNANT Z. S.
07OCT42 OBERLEUTNANT Z. S.

Medals
14MAR43 IRON CROSS, SECOND CLASS (Posthumous)

U-Bootwaffe Postings
09MAY41 1st Flotilla (Commander training)
04OCT42 2nd Flotilla

U-Boat Commands
04OCT42 U-178, Type IXD2 (2 patrols)

Details of Loss
U-190 was sunk on 14 MAR 43 at the beginning of its second war patrol by enemy aircraft in the mouth of the Gironde Estuary shortly after having parted company with its escort out of Bordeaux.

Summary
2 war patrols, 37 sea days
14 ships sunk, 60,296 tons

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Details of Loss
U-190 was sunk on 14 MAR 43 at the beginning of its second war patrol by enemy aircraft in the mouth of the Gironde Estuary shortly after having parted company with its escort out of Bordeaux.

Summary
2 war patrols, 37 sea days
14 ships sunk, 60,296 tons

[Laufen zum Ziel]

A week with no lost subs???? Wow were getting good at this.

[RoaldLarsen]

Originally Posted by Laufen zum Ziel

A week with no lost subs???? Wow were getting good at this.

Nobody wants to reach that mark!

It's only been 5 days since the loss of Oblt.zS Reif. Stop being so bloodthirsty!

Give it time, there will be more losses.

I nearly lost Oblt.zS Uhlig today. He was set upon by two Sunderlands just as he surfaced a week out from St. Nazaire. Severe damage, lost his Biscay Cross. Fortunately the next day the weather turned really bad and he was able to scoot home on the surface. Now he's having a snorkel installed.

[Laufen zum Ziel]

Nobody wants to reach that mark!

It's only been 5 days since the loss of Oblt.zS Reif. Stop being so bloodthirsty!

Give it time, there will be more losses.

You'r right. I have been at sea too long....

[BasilY]

Originally Posted by Laufen zum Ziel

A week with no lost subs???? Wow were getting good at this.

The other reason being the uboat captains are meeting at the Beer Halls in Munich...

Discussing:

1. Assassinate Hitler by inviting him onto a uboat and scuttle it.
2. A better way to survive Hedgehog.
3. Who make the best mistress at base? Norwegian, French, Greek, or Romanian?
4. Is Tsingdao Beer German?

Or...

5. Still deciding whether to install GWX 3.0...

[Laufen zum Ziel]

Install GWX 3 & you will be joining this group sooner then later.

Jetzt. Go Waschbecken einige Briten.

[Thomen]

Originally Posted by Laufen zum Ziel

Install GWX 3 & you will be joining this group sooner then later.

Jetzt. Go Waschbecken einige Briten.

Go "kitchen-sink" (or wash-bowl) some brits?

[BasilY]

Oct 22nd, 1942, U-149 attacked a convoy of 5 soviet ships off the Eastern Back Sea. After using all 5 torpedoes to sink 2 ships (including the escort) and wounded another 2, U-149 surfaced to attack 3 unarmed merchant ships with flak gun. After sinking a coastal tanker, Captain Jahn turned his attention to a wounded and stopped Passenger/Cargo. He close to within 100 meter before opening fire. After a few shots, the victim exploded violently, a truck on the cargo deck flew into the air and landed right on top of the uboat. (sorry, not picture available because external camera was disabled and the captain was dumb founded by this inicredible situation).


When the stunned captain come about to realize the perilous situation and start the emergency repairs, U-149 was already motally wounded. 1 crew member died when the truck landed on top of the flak gun, killing him instantly. Another died of his wounds after abandoning ship. They should consider themselves lucky. After scuttling their boat, the remining crew are taken prisoner by the Soviets, sent to Siberia, half of them are never heard from again.



Name: BASIL JAHN
Date of Birth: 22FEB20
Place of Birth: HAMELN
Date of Intake: 01APR37 (CREW 37)

Promotions
02JAN38 SEEKADETT
01NOV38 FÄHNRICH Z. S.
01JUL40 OBERFÄHNRICH Z. S.
01DEC40 LEUTNANT Z. S.
22OCT42 OBERLEUTNANT Z. S.

Medals
20OCT42 IRON CROSS, SECOND CLASS

Badges
20OCT42 U-BOAT BADGE
20OCT42 U-BOAT FRONT CLASP
U-Bootwaffe Postings
18JUL41 1st Flotilla (Commander training)
03OCT42 30th/33rd Flotilla (4 patrols)

U-Boat Commands
03OCT42 U-149, Type IID (4 patrols)

Patrol Dates Ships Sunk
(Merchant/Warship) Tonnage
(Merchant/Warship) Comments

1 03OCT42 - 09OCT42 (7 days) 2 (2/0) 1970 (1970/0) U-Boat damaged (H.I. 99.79%)
2 10OCT42 - 13OCT42 (4 days) 5 (5/0) 13281 (13281/0)
3 14OCT42 - 20OCT42 (7 days) 5 (5/0) 16134 (16134/0)
4 21OCT42 - 22OCT42 (2 days) 4 (3/1) 11682 (10982/700) U-Boat damaged (H.I. 14.77%)

TOTALS: 4 patrols (20 days)

16 (15/1) 43067 (42367/700) 0 enemy planes downed
27 crew lost

Summary
Oberleutnant z. S. Basil Jahn and U-149 surrendered to the Allies on 22OCT42. Basil Jahn was sent to a POW camp near the Soviet/Mongolian boarder. where he stayed until 1956. After returning Basil Jahn went on to serve for more than two years in the German minesweeping service (Deutscher Minenräumdienst). During the postwar period he joined the Bundesmarine (post-war German Navy). There he served for four years as Navy attache in the USA and then spent three years as Flottillenadmiral and Commander of the Marinedivision Nordsee before retiring in March 1970. He died on 26 April 1989.

Or maybe he also joined the East German Stazi, you never know.

[Laufen zum Ziel]

TOTALS: 4 patrols (20 days)
0 enemy planes downed
27 crew lost

Summary
Oberleutnant z. S. Basil Jahn and U-149 surrendered to the Allies on 22OCT42. Basil Jahn was sent to a POW camp near the Soviet/Mongolian boarder. where he stayed until 1956. After returning Basil Jahn went on to serve for more than two years in the German minesweeping service (Deutscher Minenräumdienst). During the postwar period he joined the Bundesmarine (post-war German Navy). There he served for four years as Navy attache in the USA and then spent three years as Flottillenadmiral and Commander of the Marinedivision Nordsee before retiring in March 1970. He died on 26 April 1989.

[Otto Heinzmeir]

Originally Posted by Fluffysheap

If someone views the thread multiple times it counts once for each, I think.

I play DiD with GWX on 97% realism (have still been using the event cam though I will turn it off for next career). But I have not had a successful enough career to post. Mostly strange things happen to me. I start in 1939 with my Type II as usual. I decide I will die of boredom if I have to spend another five weeks listening to the radio and waiting for the British to get into the war (love GWX, don't love how the game starts so early) so I decide to fight against Poland. I sail to Danzig and fiddle around for a week and a half, which at least is less annoying than two and a half. Turns out GWX doesn't model the raid by the Schleswig-Holstein. Well, the harbor is still full of Polish ships for me to sink. To my amusement the harbor is German even though all the ships are Polish and the other harbors in the area are Polish. Historically Danzig did not become German for a week. The usual torpedo problems, I manage to sink only two ships with my five torpedoes. One misses while fired directly at the stack of a stationary ship with only 20 degree deflection. Huh. One predetonates, one is either set at the wrong depth or runs at the wrong depth, two hit. I sneak out underwater. I've gotten halfway to the channel into the open Baltic and suddenly two Polish destroyers materialize out of nowhere. I'm sunk when I crash into the bottom at flank speed trying to dodge depth charges. Well, the impact didn't sink me but it pretty much put the writing on the wall.

Previous to that I had the strangest career ever - set sail in 1939 with my Type II (as always), sailing past Norway I encounter some tugboat and it's towing something! I investigate and it's a Norwegian tug so I can't sink it, and there's what looks like a light ship but it's completely red, like it's made of rust. Light ship has no flag. I leave them be. Sail to England, war starts, find a perfectly stationary ship right off the coast of Scotland, ID'd as depot ship, I sink it. Sailing around for a while I manage to sink a coastal merchant and then go on a run of bad aim and run out of torpedoes. But hey I sank that depot ship ... oh wait! Debriefing says it was a neutral minelayer. A neutral what what? I spent 400 renown on fancy officers this patrol so I'm short this game anyway and there goes most of the rest of it.

Next patrol I head out, back to Scotland. Hear dolphins. Chase the dolphins all over the North Sea, those little guys really haul fin. Just before I run the dolphins down I hear a sonar contact. Oh well, duty calls! Tracking the merchant by hydrophone I finally track him down and ... it's an English fishing boat. If he is after tuna I have some dolphins for him. Unfortunately the sea is a little too rough for me to use the flak gun, there's no deck gun on this boat and I'm not shooting a torpedo at a fishing boat so today the English will receive their strategically critical mackerel.

Back to chasing dolphins. Finally run them down and get some nice screenshots. I save and reload here only to find that my watch crew has spawned clones of themselves, even though I was on the surface when I saved. OK, well at least I won't be short of crew this mission.

Back to the patrol. Scotland beckons, I'm patrolling in the North Sea east of Edinburgh. I see two destroyers. OK, wait for them to pass. I see an ocean liner, it's Norwegian. Norwegian cruise lines, typical. I sink a coastal merchant but it takes two torpedoes for some reason, leaving me with three. I get a contact report of a convoy near me, heading right for Edinburgh. They're going 9 knots and my top speed is 12. I try to chase them down before they get away. I pursue but their picket destroyer is going back and forth and I have to make a really wide berth. Suddenly another destroyer comes charging across at a 90 degree angle. I wonder if the convoy has changed course but I have to dive. Afterward I figure he's probably just a random destroyer on patrol because he passes and the convoy doesn't come with. I try to chase the convoy down but I can't pick them up again. The hydrophones on the type II are crap and you can't upgrade them.

But, I manage to pick up a lone merchant. Well, ok. I stalk this guy for probably two hours of real time because I want to plot a perfect firing solution. I trace his speed and course exactly, get ahead of him and line up the perfect shot. I fire, it goes right under him. WTF, I had it set to default depth! I fire again, it hits him right below the stack, it's a dud. Argh! I've got one torpedo left and now he's moving out of position. I fire my last torpedo and it hits him right in the propeller. He sinks. I return to base triumphantly. In debriefing I find out he was Axis. AXIS?

I'm sent to Siberia, or whatever the Germans do.

So I'm not just playing death-is-death, I'm also playing court martial-is-court martial.

Sigh.

Regarding waiting 5 weeks for the war to start. Just take a 2 day patrol. Your second patrol will then start around Aug 23rd leaving just enough time to get to your grid when the war starts.

With neutrals and axis, they should have flags so you have to id then first.

Start with a type VIIB its less frustrating than the TypeII. Especially with the duds early on.

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TOTALS:

12 patrols (90 days)

9 (9/0)

37456 (37456/0)

0 enemy planes downed
0 crew lost

Summary
After his duty at the front, Sebastian Hoffma spent the last months of the war in staff positions, the last one being in Naval High Command North. After the war Sebastian Hoffma spent three months in Allied captivity. He died on 2 December 1997.

[Laufen zum Ziel]

Due to post war restrictions we can no longer use the war time death card for deaths after 1945. For those brave men who served in our U-Boats with Honor and died post war we will use the Death Card (notice) with the blue back ground.