Download or read book U Boat War in Photos Vol V written by Harry Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-08 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The information contained in the many volumes of "The U-Boat War in Photos" is unmatched in the accuracy and depth of information - not only dates, places and other data but also personal input from the men who rode the U-Boats. In these volumes you will read the compete history of each U-Boat. We post what Type the boat was, what yard built her, her launch date and her commissioning date, her FeldPost Number, who attacked her and where she was lost including the lat. long. position. We also include which flotillas she was with and her Turmabzeichen (Conning Tower Emblem) - in many cases, they had more than one and we give the reason behind the choice of the emblem.You will also read about all her Skippers including their date and place of birth, what was their Naval Class, dates and places of all their training both in class and aboard, promotions, medals and awards they received and the dates and what was their final fate.You will also see a great many photos of the boats, the Skippers, the ships they attacked along with the statistics of the ships they attacked. There is also information on any special operations they took on.PERSONAL INPUT: In many cases we post the many letters and personal conversations we had with the Skippers and others. In addition, there is personal input from the ASW guys who attacked and in many cases, destroyed the U-Boats.....and in some cases, from the victims of the attacks and sinkings. In many cases, you will also read post-war input and in many cases, you will see post-war photos of this author with the veteran.Now sit back and enjoy this library-quality research and reference book on the history of the Germany U-Bootwaffe that can be found nowhere else.

Download or read book U Boat War in Photos Vol VI written by Harry Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The information contained in the many volumes of "The U-Boat War in Photos" is unmatched in the accuracy and depth of information - not only dates, places and other data but also personal input from the men who rode the U-Boats. In these volumes you will read the compete history of each U-Boat. We post what Type the boat was, what yard built her, her launch date and her commissioning date, her FeldPost Number, who attacked her and where she was lost including the lat. long. position. We also include which flotillas she was with and her Turmabzeichen (Conning Tower Emblem) - in many cases, they had more than one and we give the reason behind the choice of the emblem.You will also read about all her Skippers including their date and place of birth, what was their Naval Class, dates and places of all their training both in class and aboard, promotions, medals and awards they received and the dates and what was their final fate.You will also see a great many photos of the boats, the Skippers, the ships they attacked along with the statistics of the ships they attacked. There is also information on any special operations they took on.PERSONAL INPUT: In many cases we post the many letters and personal conversations we had with the Skippers and others. In addition, there is personal input from the ASW guys who attacked and in many cases, destroyed the U-Boats.....and in some cases, from the victims of the attacks and sinkings. In many cases, you will also read post-war input and in many cases, you will see post-war photos of this author with the veteran.Now sit back and enjoy this library-quality research and reference book on the history of the Germany U-Bootwaffe that can be found nowhere else.

Download or read book U Boat War in Photos written by Harry Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The information contained in the many volumes of "The U-Boat War in Photos" isunmatched in the accuracy and depth of information - not only dates, places and otherdata but also personal input from the men who rode the U-Boats. In these volumes youwill read the compete history of each U-Boat. We post what Type the boat was, whatyard built her, her launch date and her commissioning date, her FeldPost Number, whoattacked her and where she was lost including the lat. long. position. We also includewhich flotillas she was with and her Turmabzeichen (Conning Tower Emblem) - in manycases, they had more than one and we give the reason behind the choice of theemblem.You will also read about all her Skippers including their date and place of birth, whatwas their Naval Class, dates and places of all their training both in class and aboard,promotions, medals and awards they received and the dates and what was their finalfate.You will also see a great many photos of the boats, the Skippers, the ships theyattacked along with the statistics of the ships they attacked. There is also informationon any special operations they took on.PERSONAL INPUT: In many cases we post the many letters and personalconversations we had with the Skippers and others. In addition, there is personal inputfrom the ASW guys who attacked and in many cases, destroyed the U-Boats.....and insome cases, from the victims of the attacks and sinkings. In many cases, you will alsoread post-war input and in many cases, you will see post-war photos of this author withthe veteran.Now sit back and enjoy this library-quality research and reference book on the history ofthe Germany U-Bootwaffe that can be found nowhere else.

Download or read book U Boat War in Photos written by Harry Cooper and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "U-Boat War in Photos" volume 1 (U-1 through U-29) The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuously running battle in the history of war. The German U-Bootfahrer were some of the most honorable fighters in the war despite wartime propaganda to the contrary. They did not machine gun men in the water but rather, they helped struggling survivors of the sunken ships in the early years. After 'Black May' of 1943 when the German codes were broken and 'Huff-Duff' (or High Frequency Directional Finder = HFDF) came on the scene and U-Boats did not dare linger on the surface did the U-Boats cease giving aid; they never murdered men at sea. Nearly 3,000 ships were sunk, tens of thousand merchant sailors died, more than 800 U-Boats were lost and nearly 29,000 U-Bootfahrer perished in the cold oceans of the world. At the end of the war however, the U-Bootwaffe was the only oversubscribed branch of the Wehrmacht (German military forces). After 'Black May' U-Boats had one chance in ten of returning from their first Feindfahrt (war patrol) and nine out of ten chances of being sunk. Still they enlisted.....still they went to sea, most never to return.

Download or read book U Boat Vol XV written by Harry Cooper and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-12-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the Otto Kretschmer you never knew; Riding the Wild Goose; Americans aboard a German U-Boat; Insights into various U-Boat crewman; Greatest Patrol of USS BARB; Submarines Rescue POWs; Sailboat or Submarine? and more U-Boat history directly from the men who lived it. These are all memories of the men who fought the war sea; first person history.

Download or read book U Boat War written by Lothar Günther Buchheim and published by Outlet. This book was released on 1986-04-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles submarine warfare in the North Atlantic during the Second World War, and describes the battles above and below the surface

Download or read book U boat Operations of the Second World War Career Histories U511 UIT25 written by Kenneth G. Wynn and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Kriegsmarine U boats 1939 45 1 written by Gordon Williamson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-20 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, the first of two volumes on Germany's World War II U-boats, traces their development from the early U-boats of the Kaiser's Navy, the prohibition on Germany having U-boats following the Armistice in 1918 and the subsequent Treaty of Versailles, the secret development of U-boats using a 'cover-firm' in Holland, culminating in the formation of the 1st U-boat Flotilla in 1935 with the modern Type II. The operational history section includes examples from the Classes Type VIIA, Type VIIB, VIID, VIIE and VIIF before concentrating on the mainstay of the U-boat arm, the Type VIIC. Comparisons are also made with the standard allied submarines, their strengths, weaknesses and U-boat tactics.

Download or read book The German Navy at War 1935 1945 The battleships written by Siegfried Breyer and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 1989 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the ships, commanders, harbors, bases, uniforms and insignia of the U-Boot Waffe in over 270 photos.

Download or read book U boats in Camera 1939 1945 written by Jak P. Mallmann Showell and published by Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume charts the life of a German U-boat from construction through to active service, and looks at commissioning, sea trials and the first patrol of a typical boat during World War II. This illustrated book also offers a glimpse at domestic life on board a German U-boat, focusing on what the ordinary seaman would have seen and experienced during his first weeks aboard a brand new boat. The author draws on the extensive archives of the German U-boat Archive and many of the photos that appear in the book are previously unpublished. Comprehensive captions describe in detail the many aspects of a U-boat at war, from the boat itself, to the crew and its personalities, life above and below the waves, and the weapons and radar with which it fought Allied shipping. This book affords an insight into this much-feared weapon of World War II, and should appeal to all with an interest in the armed forces of the Third Reich.

Download or read book U Boats off the Outer Banks Shadows in the Moonlight written by Jim Bunch and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From January to July 1942, more than seventy-five ships sank to North Carolina's "Graveyard of the Atlantic" off the coast of the Outer Banks. German U-boats sank ships in some of the most harrowing sea fighting close to America's shore. Germany's Operation Drumbeat, led by Admiral Karl Donitz, brought fear to the local communities. A Standard oil tanker sank just sixty miles from Cape Hatteras. The U-85 was the first U-boat sunk by American surface forces, and local divers later discovered a rare Enigma machine aboard. Author Jim Bunch traces the destructive history of world war on the shores of the Outer Banks.

Download or read book Hunt and Kill written by Theodore P. Savas and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2004-06-19 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of WWII's pivotal events was the capture of U-505 on June 4, 1944. The top secret seizure of this massive Type IX submarine provided the Allies with priceless information on German technology and innovation. After the war U-505 was transported to Chicago, where today 1,000,000 visitors a year pass through her at the Museum of Science and Industry. Hunt and Kill offers the first definitive study of U-505. The chapters cover her construction, crew and commanders, combat history, general Type IX operations, naval intelligence, the eight fatal German mistakes that doomed the boat, and her capture, transportation, and restoration for posterity. The contributors to this fascinating volume--a Who's Who of U-boat historians--include: Erich Topp (U-Boat Ace, commander of U-552); Eric Rust (Naval Officers Under Hitler); Timothy Mulligan (Neither Sharks Nor Wolves); Jak Mallman Showell (Hitler's U-boat Bases); Jordan Vause (Wolf); Lawrence Patterson (First U-boat Flotilla); Mark Wise (Enigma and the Battle of the Atlantic); Keith Gill (Curator, Museum of Science and Industry), and Theodore Savas (Silent Hunters; Nazi Millionaries).

Download or read book The Burning Shore written by Ed Offley and published by Civitas Books. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun at Virginia Beach, two massive fireballs erupted just offshore from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. While men, women, and children gaped from the shore, two damaged oil tankers fell out of line and began to sink. Then a small escort warship blew apart in a violent explosion. Navy warships and aircraft peppered the water with depth charges, but to no avail. Within the next twenty-four hours, a fourth ship lay at the bottom of the channel— all victims of twenty-nine-year-old Kapitänleutnant Horst Degen and his crew aboard the German U-boat U-701. In The Burning Shore, acclaimed military reporter Ed Offley presents a thrilling account of the bloody U-boat offensive along America’s east coast during the first half of 1942, using the story of Degen’s three war patrols as a lens through which to view this forgotten chapter of World War II. For six months, German U-boats prowled the waters off the eastern seaboard, sinking merchant ships with impunity, and threatening to sever the lifeline of supplies flowing from America to Great Britain. Degen’s successful infiltration of the Chesapeake Bay in mid-June drove home the U-boats’ success, and his spectacular attack terrified the American public as never before. But Degen’s cruise was interrupted less than a month later, when U.S. Army Air Forces Lieutenant Harry J. Kane and his aircrew spotted the silhouette of U-701 offshore. The ensuing clash signaled a critical turning point in the Battle of the Atlantic—and set the stage for an unlikely friendship between two of the episode’s survivors. A gripping tale of heroism and sacrifice, The Burning Shore leads readers into a little-known theater of World War II, where Hitler’s U-boats came close to winning the Battle of the Atlantic before American sailors and airmen could finally drive them away.

Download or read book Wolf written by Jordan Vause and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultivated by the Allied press during the war and fostered by movies and novels ever since, the image of a U-boat skipper held by most Americans is the personification of evil: the wolf who stalks innocents. Quite the opposite image is shared by U-boat veterans and others sympathetic to their work: the knight who endures unrivaled danger and fights nobly. Yet another popular image depicts the submarine operator as a beleaguered sailor swept along by events beyond his control. This book examines the lives of many U-Bootwaffe officers, including the famous and the not-so-well known, to see if a pattern emerges. Drawing on a wealth of primary documents and, when possible, interviews or correspondence with the U-boat commanders themselves, Jordan Vause follows individual officers from their youths and early naval training through their wartime experiences and into the often bitter peace that followed. His close examination of their lives reveals that many were extremely different from the pictures typically drawn of them and as varied in their thoughts and actions as other fighting men on both sides of the war. Particularly valuable is the author's use of new information in his portrayal of Karl Doenitz and other prominent commanders to correct and enhance pictures presented in earlier books. His use of personal correspondence and unpublished manuscripts loaned to him in Germany adds special significance to this study and its appeal to all those interested in World War II, submarines, and the U-Bootwaffe.

Download or read book Lost WW II U Boat Photos Vol II written by Harry Cooper and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-11-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the German U-Boat War of 1939 through 1945 has never before been told in any great depth for various reasons. One reason of course, is that this data was not readily released to the general public during the war for reasons of security. After the war the U-Bootfahrer were held in great hatred due to the heavily slanted propaganda during the war years that claimed that German U-Bootfahrer were raving Nazis; that they machine gunned helpless men in the water - all absolutely false, but propaganda is a valuable weapon during time of war. After all, propaganda of World War One said that the evil "Hun" (there were no Nazis in that war) raped young women to death then fired their lifeless bodies out the torpedo tubes. It made great propaganda - everyone hated the Germans so much that nobody questioned where they found young women to rape out on the high seas. Propaganda is a critical weapon during a war. If the commanding officer were to tell his men that the guys on the other side of the battlefield loved their country like his men; had a wife and children they wanted to come home to; he went to the same church his men did - now go kill those men in the other uniform; then nobody would kill anyone and who could fight a war where nobody killed anyone? Maybe that would be the best kind of war. There is a certain mystique about submarines in general and the U-Boats of Germany in World War Two in particular. Never before in history has any nation built and fought such a massive numbers of submarines - Germany had many hundreds in their fleet and the men who rode these boats were a particularly unique kind of warrior. I have been blessed to have known hundreds of the surviving U-Bootfahrer and dozens of the Skippers. These were the most honorable of the combatants.....many of the photos you will see were given to Sharkhunters by these warriors. We have well over a quarter-million photos in our library, actually closer to 300,000 and probably 75% are of the U-Boats, the crews and the Skippers. A great many have never been seen before this book and the volumes that will follow this Volume #2. Now sit back and let your mind take you back to that time in history; let your imagination bring you onto the bridge of a U-Boat crashing through mountainous seas in pursuit of a convoy or looking through the periscope at smoke smudges just over the horizon that says a convoy is there. Perhaps your imagination takes you to a quiet shore in the dark of night as the crew puts the rubber rafts over the side and saboteurs begin their trek to a foreign shore. Sir back and enjoy - you are in command.

Download or read book The German U Boat Base at Lorient France Vol 2 written by Luc Braeuer and published by Schiffer Military History. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume two (of a four volume series) reveals the story of the seventy-eight German U-boats that passed through the port of Lorient from July 1941 to July 1942. The book explains the major phases in the Battle of the Atlantic in which U-boats were operating and particularly the surprise attacks on merchant traffic along the American coast. It details the Allied actions against the port of Lorient and their system of defense against the German U-boat arm. Also featured are unedited reminiscences of the U-boat crews' life ashore in Lorient during their patrol arrivals and departures. This work is illustrated with over 500 exceptional war-era photographs as well as maps and plans. A unique color section presents the remains, documents, and memories relating to the presence of the U-boats in Lorient.

Download or read book Hitler s U boat War written by Clay Blair and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 909 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume in Clay Blair's history of Hitler's U-boat war, covering years 1942 to 1945. Told chronologically, it is divided into two sections: the war against Britain and her empire, and the war against the Americas. Clay Blair served in World War II in the submarines. He chronicles dramatic scenes of naval actions and makes interpretations and conclusions about all aspects of the Battle of the Atlantic.