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Type VIIC/41 U-boats with their 88mm deck guns removed. Towards the end of the war the U-boats had few opportunities to use their guns and instead attacked with their primary weapon, torpedoes, staying concealed themselves. From the right, U 1109, U 1058, U 278 and U 901. Late Type VIIC and VIIC/41 U-boats were fitted […]

The antenna of the FuMO–61 Hohentwiel; Type VIIs began to receive this in March 1944. Type VIIC/41 with its snorkel and periscopes (the attack periscope is the taller one). There is no 88mm deck gun – by the end of the war Type VIIs only carried AA guns. Radar In 1857 Rudolf Hertz succeeded in […]

(U-219 Type XB minelaying submarine) U-195 had enjoyed a fairly uneventful cruise from Bordeaux to Djakarta. She left Bordeaux with a 250-ton cargo comprising optical instruments, mercury, dismantled V-weapons, torpedoes, blueprints, radar sets and a Japanese technical officer. After departing in company with U-180 and U-219, as described above, on the night of 23/24 August, […]