Operation Deadlight 2001 dives

Midgets at the Verkehrsmuseum in Speyer, Germany

3 Jan
Updated "Events on this day" again, plus better printing
I've updated the popular Events on this day page. Improved the display of Allied ships hit (convoys click-able now), added "Attacks on U-boats" and various other improvements. I also completely re-wrote the look and feel of the pages when you print them out. They are not 100% perfect yet but a lot better and very usable (not a given on the web).

3 Jan
Added 2 new Galleries
Added the 15 photo post-war gallery of the Elbe II bunker in Hamburg that includes great shots of the trapped type XXI boats. Then added a great diving gallery, 11 photos, of the U-1277 off Portugal.

2 Jan
Surrender order of the German U-boat fleet
Added an article with the English translation of appendix A of the German surrender documents. That appendix describes how the German U-boats were to surrender to the Allied from May 7 1945.

2 Jan
U-boat commander photos added
Added photos of the following 3 U-boat commanders of WWII; Hans-Heinz Linder, Hartwig Looks and Paul Siegmann.

2 Jan
U-boat commander photos added (WWI)
Added photos of the following 6 U-boat commanders of WWI; Heino von Heimburg (Pour le Mérite), Herbert Pustkuchen, Wilhelm Rhein, Karl Georg Schuster, Gustav Siess (Pour le Mérite) and Rudolf Singule.

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From the Gallery


Elbe II bunker in Hamburg after the war

U-96 / Das Boot Museum at Bavaria Studios

Announcement Board

U-19 U-20 and U-23 found off Turkey (7 Feb, 2008)

U-534 being broken up into 4 pieces (6 Feb, 2008)

A diver died while filming the U-778 (13 Oct, 2007)

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