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Kielhauler goes to 150 metres and rigs for silent running..Originally posted by Realjambo:
...you've left me with nothing to expand upon!
It's taken me awhile to find a relevent question worthy of all you knowledgeable kaleuns, but here it is:
Which U-boat was taken by surprise, while submerged, and depth-charged to the surface to be sunk by gunfire, mainly because the crew were having a party to celebrate a recent success? The hydrophone operator was busy washing-up champagne glasses and not at his station!
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Nice one MOttie! I suppose more than a few of us have lost boats after a couple of, ahem, beveragesOriginally posted by M0ttie:
That would be Kaleun M0ttie, U999, VIIc 2 careers ago just outside Gibraltar..........
I'll give you a clue and reveal the answer either later tonight or tomorrow morning (GMT+1).
The boat was lost in action against convoy HX 228.
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OK, gotta hit the sack now, up early tomorrow.
It was U-432. Answer can be found on page 4, chapter IV, paragraph 4.
Source: (official survivors' interrogation report here): http://www.uboatarchive.net/U-432INT.htm
Floor is open.
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Kielhauler -
With Julie Andrews in the question, I would guess that the answer would lie in the movie industry. I seem to remember that in my daughter's once-favorite movie, "The Sound of Music", the father was a stern military man. A WW1 u-boat ace perhaps? If so, wouldn't it be wild if his sub had edelweiss as it's emblem?
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@ MartiniMik:
Correct! The Sound of Music is the connection. George Ludwig von Trapp was an Austrian U-Boay ace in WW1. Here is his wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Ludwig_von_Trapp
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