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His uboat was decorated with a horseshoe symbol on the conning tower and he was very lucky indeed. Otto kretschmer 1 may 1912 5 august 1998 was a german naval officer and submariner in world war ii and the cold war from september 1939 until his surrender in march 1941, he sank 47 ships, a total of 274,333 tons. The uboat war in world war two kriegsmarine, 19391945 and world war one kaiserliche marine, 19141918 and the allied efforts to counter the threat. Hello, i have a microzed that can boot with the root filesystem on a ramdisk or on an sdcard partition. Kretschmer, otto fregattenkapitan, erfolgreichster ubootkommandant u99 im 2. Prior to joining the reichsmarine as an officer candidate at the age of 18 he studied english and literature at exeter university in england for eight months. Vor wenigen wochen war otto kern vllig berraschend gestorben. Download iron coffins a personal account of the german uboat battles of world war ii download german u boats type vii and xxi. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. The uboat war badge ubootkriegsabzeichen was a german war badge that was awarded to uboat crew members during world.
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The wartime career of otto kretschmer, uboat ace paperback common by author terence robertson, introduction by jurgen rohwer on. After the completion of his submariner training he was promoted to oberleutnant zur see sublieutenant. Otto kretschmer, of the german reichsmarine, was the most successful submarine commander of any navy during the second world war. Otto kretschmer download otto kretschmer ebook pdf or read online books in pdf, epub, and mobi format. U530 did not surrender at wars end, instead the crew headed for argentina. During the uboot download feast, diplomats take on a german submarine cruiser officer, who, along with ordinary service, builds unmatched facilities forced by the kriegsmarine. August 1998 in straubing war ein deutscher marineoffizier. Otto kretschmer 1 may 1912 5 august 1998 was the most successful german uboat commander in the second world war and later an admiral in the. Download german u boats type vii and xxi collection ebook uboat worldwar2. Therefore it need a free signup process to obtain the book. The golden horseshoe is a small book, thus one cannot expect it to rival with a full biography of kapitan otto kretschmer, but it is well enough written and. Download pdf otto kretschmer free online new books in. Step behind the periscope of a german uboat and take on the allied forces in famous battles across the vast atlantic ocean and mediterranean sea. Otto kretschmer, who was to become germanys top uboat ace.
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