Recent uboat pictures

[greenman407]

How about a few 212s?

[greenman407]

Tanker

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[greenman407]

I hope that some of these are new to you.

[greenman407]

Its been a while.

[greenman407]

Notice the bent down fin in front of the bow planes. Got bent somehow. But the one in the air doesnt appear to have one in the front.apparently the U tanker is the furthest from the camera.

[greenman407]

Inside the V80

[greenman407]

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[Von Hilde]

I notice a temporary wood platform forward of the tower on the 2 launch pictures of 2332 and 2333 and no "factory" wood decking on them or any of the other actual operational boats pictures. Those 2 were built in Kiel at the same time launched respectivley oct 18 1944 and Nov 16 44 and stayed at the 5 flottile for training untill may 45 and scuttled. Perhaps that was a temporary fix just for post launch maintainance. U2345 was launched in sep 44 and went to 32 flottile and remained untill surrender and went down in operation deadlight by the RN off of Ireland may 8 45. The earlier pictures with the light grey and the number quickly scribbled on the tower were over painted with schwartsgrau early 1945 after the 8th airforce started concentrating on the shipyards and northern Germany's industrial complexes. The numbers that were eventually painted on the towers were rather large and bold, like on the U 2336 Twords the end of the war they were launching what few they could with no paint untill the bombings destroyed most of the yards and surrounding areas. Some just had chalk numbers scratched on rusty metal , that never got launched but were ready to go when the allied troops finally arrived in the spring 45

[trout]

The second from the bottom, U2345, looks like a complete coating of rust. The last photo looks like it is painted black. Interesting.

[greenman407]

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[MFR1964]

Purrrrrrr, purrrrr,purrrrrrr

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

sounds like two alpha-male cats going at it in the woods.