The official AHF U-boat quiz thread

[oldhoweboy]

AhAh! You asked for 5 electric, I gave you five! Where there six?
You asked for 4 Diesel, I gave you 5!
Want 120% please?
LOL
Next question 2morrow
OHB Nobby

[FAlmeida]

ELECTRIC.
AEG
GARBE LAHMEYER
SIEMENS
BBC
GL....... ??????? acronym for GARBE LAHMEYER

Hi Nobby
considering you deserve for the effort ....90,1% LOL
Cheers, Fernando

DIESEL.
DAIMLER BENZ
KRUPP
MAN AUGSBERG
MAN NUREMBERG
MWM MANNHEIM

[oldhoweboy]

Hi
New question for today!

What do you know about "Braunkohle"????
Rgds
Nobby

[FAlmeida]

this is alternative to the lack of fuel in Kriegsmaine in 1944-1945
to derive gasoline refinery and other synthetic fuels from coal
by Brabag i.e. Braunkohle-Benzin AG

Cheers, Fernando

[oldhoweboy]

Hi
No, not what I am looking for, try finding out about:-
sumpfkohle,lichtkohle and presskohle
Nothing to do with fuel etc.
Good Luck
Nobby

[FAlmeida]

Hello
code name"Carbon Brown" this apparatus was designed to cover the high radio frequency band, had four high frequency receivers placed on the hull of the boat connected with a rotary quadrupole goniometer system
Cheers, Fernando

[oldhoweboy]

Well done Fernando!
Rgds

[FAlmeida]

132 U-boat commanders received the Deutsche Kreuz in Gold, but 4 of them have received for previously services in the Luftwaffe.
Who were they?

Rgds. Fernando

[FAlmeida]

It seems that it is hard ....
I'll give a little help with the initials of the surnames ....
1st E ??? KIA
2nd J ??? survived to war
3rd K ??? KIA
4th T ??? survived to war

Rgds. Fernando

[FAlmeida]

As nobody answered this is the answer and I will put new question .....

Ebert, Jürgen [Kdt. U 927] 25-11-1942 Deutsches Kreuz in Gold für den Dienst an Luftwaffe als Staka 10./ KG 77 (during service in Air Force as Squadron Leader in the 10th Squadron/77th Bomber Wing 10/42-04/43)

Jürs, Ralf [Kdt. U 778] 24-06-1943 Deutsches Kreuz in Gold für den Dienst Stab/Aufklärungs-Führer Schwarzes Meer West
(when serving in Naval Air Force 1a Officer in the Staff/Reconnaissance leader Black Sea 05/42-06/43)

Knollmann, Helmut [Kdt. U 1273] 31-08-1943 Deutsches Kreuz in Gold für den Dienst an Luftwaffe Stab II./ Kampf-Geschwader 26 "Löwen" (When serving in the Air Force Staff II / Battle Squadron 26 "lions")

Thomsen, Rolf [Kdt. U 1202] 14-10-1943 Deutsches Kreuz in Gold für den Dienst an Luftwaffe bei der Kampfgeschwader 26 (for the service in the Air Force Combat Squadron 26 04/42-03/43)


Regards, Fernando

[FAlmeida]

I hope this question is more easier ....

What u-boat that was sunk by the British twice?

Regards, Fernando

[Polar bear]

hi,

.. and in the same year ...

greetings, the pb

[oldhoweboy]

Hi
The DKIG question is easy to answer if you have the Biography book!
Nearly all the info you have just given in your answer is not on any U-boat sites that I have access to.
Rgds
OHB

[sirius02]

U-31. First sunk by a Bristol Blenheim from RAF Bomber Command, off Jade Roads, on March 11, 1940. Later raised and again sunk (and again by British forces and in the same year), by HMS Antelope, on November 2, to the NW of Ireland.

[FAlmeida]

Hello Sirius
You are correct ....next question to you!!!!
Rgds, Fernando