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01-11-23, 03:52 AM
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4th Training Flotilla, Stettin and AGRU-Front
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+++++++ Monday, 11 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). +++++++
Chinese Ambassador Wei Daoming and US Secretary of State Cordell Hull sign the Treaty for Relinquishment of Extraterritorial Rights in China, in Washington DC. Through this treaty, the Americans give up territorial claims in China and give up the American portion of the Boxer Protocol. Soviet troops launch the Novorossiysk-Maikop Offensive Operation in the Caucasus region of southern Russia. U 124 (Kptlt. Johann Mohr) 11.1. stalked freighter "Angle Indian" in EO 6616, course 300°, 10 knots. Double miss, torpedoes set too deep, observed before boat was forced to submerge by air patrol. Convoy No. 2 (TM.1): U 511 (Kptlt. Fritz Schneewind) was forced by a Sunderland to submerge during the morning, and at 1609 by 2 Corvettes, so that she lagged behind. As the 2 remaining tankers proceeded at a speed of about 12 to 13 knots and the submarines would have caught up with them until the next day at the earliest, when they would have reached the area of regular air patrols, the attack on the convoy was broken off. U 177 (IXD2; Kptlt. Robert Gysae) passed on her experiences to U 182 (IXD2; Kptlt. Asmus Nicolai Clausen) and handed over "Eisbär" order. So far, because of bad weather, only U 662 (KrvKpt. Wolfgang Hermann) has refueled from U 117 (XB; Korvkpt. Hans-Werner Neumann). This rules out the possibility of detailing the remaining boats of former Group "Spitz" (U 123, 260, 440, 706, 662) and Group "Jaguar" to attack the expected northeast convoy (HX or SC) N.E. of Newfoundland. General: The setting-up of Group "Falke" was not successful, the "ONS" convoy was not contacted. The two unsuccessful operations prove the crying need for more submarines. The longer the patrol strip and the closer the boats, the greater the chance of contacting a convoy. Present lack of submarines prevents the setting-up of several patrols with sufficient boats. As long as reinforcements from home remain as weak as during the last few months, conditions will not improve. This once again emphasizes the great draw back of our naval warfare: the lack of all air reconnaissance. The effect of our submarine warfare would be very different if the submarines did not have to seek and find the enemy for themselves; they are totally unfitted for this task, for it requires large numbers of boats, it also causes long, wasteful, fruitless waiting. U 648 (Ltnt.z.S.d.R. Peter-Arthur Stahl) conducts exercises with the AGRU-Front Hela. KorvKpt.& Cmdr. U 115
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01-12-23, 04:50 AM
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4th Training Flotilla, Stettin and AGRU-Front
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+++++++ Tuesday, 12 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). +++++++
The Russian BI-2 rocket-powered prototype aircraft takes its second flight at Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, reaching an altitude of 2,190 meters and reaching the speed of 675 kilometers per hour. Our troops withdraw from the Caucasus region to the Kuban bridgehead, while the Soviets launch Operation Spark, an offensive to restore communication and over-land supply route to Leningrad. U 160 (Kptlt. Georg Lassen) has replaced U 522 (Kptlt. Herbert Schneider) in Group "SEEHUND" and has been ordered to make for GG 10 (Capetown). U 459 (KrvKpt. Georg von Wilamowitz-Möllendorf) reported that 2 destroyers were waiting in the rendezvous square FD 25 where she was to meet the Italian submarine J 28. Rendezvous was moved to FD 34. Final Remarks on convoy TM.1: The operation begun at 1600 on 3.1.1943 took the desired course. The Group "DELPHIN" patrol picked up the convoy on 8.1. 0116 hours after U 514 (Kptlt. Hans Jürgen Auffermann) sent her last shadower report. The convoy continues somewhat south of the Great Circle, without altering its mean course. The convoy escort, which consisted mainly of fairly old gun boats and Corvettes, was inexperienced and not very dogged. Despite excellent hydrophone and Asdic conditions with very calm weather and sea, it did not succeed in badly damaging a single boat, let alone sinking one. Surface location was not observed. On the whole the results can be described as very good and particularly satisfactory for Operational Control, who with great good fortune were justified in making their hard decisions on 4.1. to desert the fast convoy proceeding to America which had been contacted once in favor of a convoy which could not be picked up for over 100 hours. 15 tankers totaling about 141,000 GRT were sunk. No submarines were damaged. U 648 (Ltnt.z.S.d.R. Peter-Arthur Stahl) conducts exercises with the AGRU-Front Hela. KorvKpt.& Cmdr. U 115
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01-13-23, 03:44 AM
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4th Training Flotilla, Stettin and AGRU-Front
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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). +++++++
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. KorvKpt.& Cmdr. U 115
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01-14-23, 05:08 AM
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4th Training Flotilla, Stettin and AGRU-Front
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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). +++++++
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. KorvKpt.& Cmdr. U 115
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01-15-23, 07:26 AM
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4th Training Flotilla, Stettin and AGRU-Front
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+++++++ Friday, 15 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). +++++++
Two companies of "Loreto" combat engineers battalion of the Italian Air Force are transferred by ship from Sicily, to Tunis; the remaining two companies of the 1st Air Force Assault Regiment "Amedeo d'Aosta" will remain in Sicily to repair airfields. Our Luftwaffe raids Telepte Airfield in Tunisia three times and Youks-les-Bains Airfield in Algeria once. The enemy claims that a total of 15 of our aircraft are shot down during these attacks. General: Neither the "SC" nor the "HX" convoy (Group "Jaguar") were contacted. Unfortunately delays in refueling reduced Group "Jaguar" to 6 boats. Probably "SC" and "HX" passed to the north of the submarine disposition. These two convoys bring the total up to four that have been missed since 31.12. It must be assumed that the enemy has left the convoy routes that he has been sailing for nearly 5 months and is again scattering his convoy routes. This development is a great drawback to attacks by our boat, but was only to be expected. As has already been emphasized, it was quite inexplicable why the English stuck so stubbornly to almost the same convoy routes for six months, which greatly simplified finding the convoys. Probably the convoy routes to the north have been moved into the patrol areas of the Greenland and Iceland units. The next step for us to take is to make long dispositions with numerous boats so as to find out exactly what detours the enemy is making. Groups "Falke" and "Habicht" have been given a disposition for 16.1 against the "ONS" convoy with this end in view. If this operation is again unsuccessful, it will be necessary to patrol farther to the north, preferably in the area S.E. of Greenland. The Pentagon, the new building in Virginia, United States, and the future home of the US Department of War, are dedicated. U 648 (Ltnt.z.S.d.R. Peter-Arthur Stahl) installs Ice Protection Gear at in Danzig. KorvKpt.& Cmdr. U 115
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01-16-23, 03:09 AM
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+++++++ Saturday, 16 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). +++++++
Iraq declares war on the Axis powers. British bombers attack Berlin. Soviet troops capture Pitomnik Airfield west of Stalingrad, denying the 6.Armee the ability to fly in supplies and fly out wounded men. U 214 (VIID; Kptlt. Günther Reeder) sighted 8 tankers putting out in EC 92 easterly course, speed 12 knots. Betrayed by splash of torpedo discharge during daylight attack. No contact. Groups "Falke" and "Habicht" received orders to steer on a course of 330° at a speed of 6 knots on 1100, and to occupy the position lines "Falke" from AD 8835 to AK 6362; "Habicht" from AL 4171 to 7229 at 0430 on 17.1 as patrol channels. U 414 and U 268 exchange positions owing to reversed times of arrival. This move to the N.W. follows a Radio Intelligence report, according to which the last ONS convoy apparently deviated far to the N. as far as the new patrolled area. As, according to Radio Intelligence report (special) the convoy New York/Gibraltar has been delayed for 6 days. Group "Delphin" received orders to proceed on a course of 285° at a speed of 6 knots by day and to remain in patrol channels at night. Intention: Perfect patrol of occupied channels and area gain for actions. As it may be presumed with certainty that the expected HX and SC (convoy) passed unperceived, the boats of Group "Jaguar" are allocated the following operation areas until planned arrival of next convoys: In AJ: U 337 = 7655, U 413 = 7963, U 598 = 8491, U 594 = 8792, U 96 = 8887, U 123 = 8982, - In BC: U 266 = 2126, U 662 = 2257. This should ensure a further if not infallible patrol of this area used by the enemy for Greenland and Iceland convoys. U 648 (Ltnt.z.S.d.R. Peter-Arthur Stahl) continues exercises with the AGRU-Front Hela. KorvKpt.& Cmdr. U 115
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01-17-23, 02:57 AM
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4th Training Flotilla, Stettin and AGRU-Front
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+++++++ Sunday, 17 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). +++++++
U 66 (Kptlt. Friedrich Markworth) sighted 2 heavy cruisers and 4 destroyers on a course of 65° in DH 7297, speed 20 knots. Contact lost short time afterwards. U 105 (Oblt. Jürgen Nissen) Situation: Nothing sighted for 8 days, apart from a destroyer, in area of Tobago Passage. Regular traffic to Port of Spain is therefore unlikely through this way. Boat sank a freighter in ED 5956. Night aerial activity experienced once without radar in ED 8653. Otherwise nothing confirmed. Return passage owing to fuel situation. Current Operations: As it is presumed that the boats belonging to Group "Falke" and "Habicht" are W. of the expected convoys, both groups proceeded on an easterly course with a speed of 6 knots at 1300. U 414 (Oblt. Walther Huth) and U 631 (Oblt. Jürgen Krüger) were attacked several times in the course of the afternoon by enemy wheeled aircraft and search groups. As up to dusk the convoy had not been found, both groups turned on a course of 270° with speed of 6 knots at 1900. In this way the convoy was to be prevented from passing through unperceived by night. At 2136 U 268 (Oblt. Ernst Heydemann) reported (T.O.O. 1600) a large convoy on a northwesterly course in AD 8947. Boat attacked and sank large tanker. Subsequently forced to submerge for 6 hours by aircraft and destroyers. According to boats estimate this was connected with a HX convoy. As U 268 was about 55 miles astern and contact was lost - also as Group "Falke" could not have reached the convoy until the next day in an area of heavy enemy air protection it was not detailed for action. Instead the boats U 614 (Kptlt. Wolfgang Sträter) and U 456 (Kptlt. Max-Martin Teichert) coming from the east and in approximately AE 70 were assigned for this task. "Falke" and "Habicht" also U 268 proceeded further to the W. and on 18.1 at dawn return back from reached AD 8735 to AK 1262 also AK 1371 to AL 2129 to 90° at a speed of 6 knots. U 632 (Kptlt. Hans Karpf) fired 2 misses at an escort vessel in AD 8974. U 631 (Oblt. Jürgen Krüger) sighted unidentified craft on westerly course in AK 3267. No further contact with the enemy. Whether this refers to an escort craft has not been ascertained. U 706 (Kptlt. Alexander von Zitzewitz) has taken on supplies from U 117 (XB; Korvkpt. Hans-Werner Neumann) and occupies BC 2318, depth 40 seamiles as action area. Further supplying from U 117 was not possible up to now owing to bad weather conditions. U 260 (Kptlt. Hubertus Purkhold) and U 440 (Kptlt. Hans Geissler) still expect replenishment of supplies. Latter received ordered to return owing to the small amount on the tanker. U 648 (Ltnt.z.S.d.R. Peter-Arthur Stahl) conducts exercises with the AGRU-Front Hela. KorvKpt.& Cmdr. U 115
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