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**greenman407** · 06-10-2013, 06:31 PM

Heres a book that I just picked up. U108 at war. Its got quite a few individual up close pictures of the crew and tells which boats they served on and in some cases how they met their fate. Kinda Bone Chilling. I took a few pictures of the Pictures. In the third one note the audio pipe that they hollered into. It connected the control room with the bridge and sonar and radio rooms.
In the fifth picture, notice behind him you can make out what appears to be a plexiglass windscreen, although not very tall.

**greenman407** · 06-10-2013, 06:35 PM

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**greenman407** · 06-10-2013, 06:56 PM

A couple of things that the book mentioned was the 2nd picture shows them operating a portable signal lamp. To operate it they had to run the cord down thru all the hatches into the control room and plug it in there. In addition to the audio tubes mentioned before there was one head set used by one of the Bridge watch to communicate down to the control room.
The Germans had some trouble with their torpedoes as did the Americans. On one of their attacks they fired seven torpedoes before achieving a hit. Also that after 1943, the Uboats removed large deck guns from all U Boats to reduce loses from slugging it out with the enemy.
The Type IXB had two 9 cyl low speed supercharged Diesel engines. The description of them sounds more like that they were turbocharged. The Cylinders diameter was 15.75 inches with a nominal rating of 2170 HP at 470 RPM. The engines were cooled with seawater. The text says that because the engines were of the low speed type, they were quite rugged compared to higher speed engines.
It also mentions that there were 4 periscopes, two in the conning tower and two in the control room.

**greenman407** · 06-11-2013, 07:01 AM

I have ordered "Supplying the Grey Wolves". Should be here any day now. At last, some good intel on the "Milchcows"

**greenman407** · 06-21-2013, 10:52 AM

Stand by for action!

**greenman407** · 06-21-2013, 01:05 PM

OMG! WHAT A BOOK! This is Awesome. Its been a long time since I have bought a book that I was this pleased with. Its about the replenishment submarines. The Milchcows. At first I was afraid that it was another German book. But its done in both English and German , side by side. If you are a Uboat fan, you need this book. Most of the pictures are big and clear as if they were taken yesterday. The CD that comes with it, however is completely in German. It contains PDF files of records.