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To: M1903A1
M1903A1: "The Type VIIC pictured...is that the one preserved in Kiel?"

U995, at the Laboe Naval Memorial is about six miles northeast of Kiel.

13 posted on 04/17/2012 4:46:51 PM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)
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To: BroJoeK

If I recall the story, it was turned over to the Norwegian Navy after the war. When it was being decommissioned in the early 1960s the organization of surviving Kriegsmariner (U-boat veterans) petitioned the West German government to acquire it for a war memorial. When the government balked, the U-boat veterans pooled their own resources and bought it themselves.

A fitting choice, since the type VII U-boats (and the type VIIC in particular) were the most prolific of all U-boats.


15 posted on 04/17/2012 9:09:56 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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