Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] History storys was Re: More youthful wetsub experiences

[Lew Clayman <lew_clayman@yahoo.com>]

--- MarkR1970@aol.com wrote:
> If you really think about it it would have been impossible to know where all 
> of the U-boats ended up towards the end of the war. An example would be U-869
> that was supposedly sank off the coast of Morocco. It was found in 1991 60 
> miles off the coast of New Jersey.

Precisely - this is one of the clearest "non-deceptive" examples.  U-869 was
not engaged in anything "high level" - it was on a "routine" (if such a thing
exists) wartime patrol.  Apparently there was a communications SNAFU which was
never straightened out, in part because the 869 sank with all hands.

This kind of thing happens more often than anybody's military likes to admit. 
That's why most countries honor a representative "unknown" soldier: so much is
genuinely unknown and unknowable.

Let's get back to sub talk.  It's less depressing.

-Lew

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 And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium 
 And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium, 
 And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium and barium."
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