By Gordon Williamson
Germany's international conflict II U-boat fleet used to be a really elite battling strength. The U-Boot Waffe represented the cream of Germany's naval group of workers, and when it comes to expertise, education, strategies and wrestle successes, the German fleet was once some distance more advantageous to that of the other combatant country. This booklet tells the full tale of the 'Grey Wolves' who harried the Allies' provide traces and got here as regards to successful overall victory for Hitler in Europe. The wartime improvement of the U-boat is traced from the sort I via to the kind XXI, and the studies of average U-boat crewmen, from recruitment to wrestle, are dropped at existence. Operational strategies are tested, and the big bunkers that housed the U-boat fleet are defined and illustrated.Grossadmiral Karl Donitz, Commander-in-Chief, U-boats'I used to be enthusiastic about the original feel of comradeship, engenderd via sharing a similar destiny and difficulty locally of a U-boat group during which all people relied on each person else and during which each guy was once an necessary a part of the full. without doubt each submariner has sensed in his middle the glow of the open sea, and the duty entrusted to him, and felt as wealthy as a king, and may have traded areas with out one.'
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The biggest 'downside' for the crews was the extremely cramped interior. Space was at an absolute premium and conditions within these boats could become extremely uncomfortable very quickly. However, to many U-boat men, even though the Type IX was more spacious and thus more comfortable, its slow diving speed and thus greater vulnerability when caught on the surface made it a relatively less 'safe' boat than the Type VII. 39 WOLF PACK Without doubt, the Type VII in its many guises was by far the most influential submarine in the U-boat war.
The boat was kept as simple as possible. It had a single hull of all-welded construction, with the small conning tower as its only external structure above the waterline. The Type XXIII featured a single propeller and single rudder. Only two torpedo tubes were fitted and, owing to the small size of the boat, no reloads were carried. The torpedoes were loaded into the boat in a rather ingenious fashion. Floated out to the boat on a barge or raft, they were inserted into the tubes manually, from the exterior.
7cm deck gun aft 1 x 2cm flak gun on conning tower platform 6 torpedo tubes (4 bow, 2 stern) 22 torpedoes carried 48 THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE KRIEGSMARINE'S U-BOATS TYPE IXB The Type IXB was almost identical to its predecessor, with a small increase in fuel bunkerage giving it a slightly increased operational range, with its additional weight only causing a very slight reduction in its submerged top speed. The forward deck gun was also relocated to a position slightly nearer to the conning tower.