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Mearns, David and White, Rob

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1997

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  16:38 - Added 2 excellent military sites to my small page of links. They are Luft'46 and Tim's Tiger page, devoted to Luftwaffe aircraft and German panzers.



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  16:37 - Added the Knights Cross winner
  Kptlt (Ing.) Willi Lechtenbörger
  He was Chief Engineer on U-60, U-201 and U-847
  We now have over 115 U-boat personnel files.



• 
  16:37 - Greatly updated the career page of
  Kptlt. Joachim Schepke of U-100 fame.

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  16:39 - Added 4 German books.



• 
  16:38 - Added 10 books to the Other languages pages;
  3 Spanish, 3 Swedish, 2 Portugese and 2 Dutch.



• 
  16:38 - Worked on the books pages.

  Added 39 books to the English booklist. 15 U-boat books, 12 Related books and 12 U-boat related novels.

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  16:40 - Added a few nice comments I've received about the site.



• 
  16:39 - Added 3 photos of the Junkers Ju-88



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  16:39 - Added an anouncement regarding a convention to be held in San Fransisco Feb 13-15 1998. One of the key speakers will be Erich Topp of U-552 fame.

• 
  16:41 - Removed all August and September entries from this page which "lightened" it by some 17kb.



• 
  16:40 - Fixed the sinking date for U-403 from 17 to 18 Aug, 1943 since the squadrons in question did not fly any patrols on the 17th.



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  16:40 - Added 3 Knights Cross winners;
  KrvKpt. Helmut Möhlmann (U-143 & U-571)
  Kptlt. Gustav Poel (U-413)
  Oblt. Hans Lehmann (U-997)
  We now have over 114 U-boat personnel files.



• 
  16:40 - I'm back from Germany and will start again working on the site. Or something :)

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  01:24 - I will be in Germany for the next week. Among other things I'll visit the U-Boot Archiv in Cuxhaven and I also plan to have a very good time! :)

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  16:43 - Added a nice page on the Ju-88 aircraft. This craft played a role in the attempt to defend the U-boats over the Bay of Biscay and generally was among the most successful aircraft of the war.



• 
  16:42 - Updated the Interesting figures page.



• 
  16:42 - Fixed the fate for U-657 which was incorrect.



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  16:42 - Updated the page for U-33.

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  16:43 - Added a page on Kptlt. Helmut Schmoeckel of U-802.
  We also have one of his Commander interviews.



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  16:43 - Added the Knights Cross winner
  Kptlt. Karl Fleige (U-18)
  We now have over 110 U-boat personnel files.



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  16:43 - KrvKpt. Jochen Mohr of U-124 fame is our
  Commander of the week.