U-107 - 6th War Patrol

Translation by Jerry Mason with the help of Ken Dunn and Andi Forster

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Ships Hit
Date	KTB Time	Position	Ship	Tons	Nationality	Convoy
29 May 42	02.17	19°39'N, 74°15'W	WESTERN HEAD	2,599	British
1 Jun 42	03.54	18°21'N, 81°45'W	BUSHRANGER	4,536	Panamanian
7 Jun 42	04.08	20°27'N, 83°27'W	CASTILLA	3,910	Honduran
8 Jun 42	01.19	20°15'N, 84°51'W	SUWIED	3,249	American
10 Jun 42	05.01	19°51'N, 85°51'W	MERRIMACK	2,606	American
19 Jun 42	11.02	18°09'N, 67°39'W	CHEERIO	35	American
26 Jun 42	12.01	32°09'N, 55°02'W	JAGERFONTEIN	10,083	Netherlands
			Total = 27,018
Note:  The positions in the table above and in the Google Earth patrol summary are derived from the KTB and in many cases do not match those set forth in authoritative references such as Jürgen Rohwer, Axis Submarine Successes of World War Two or the Uboat.net website.  The goal here is to present the picture relative to the U-boat and not the absolute position that the ship was attacked or sank.

			K  r  i  e  g  s  t  a  g  e  b  u  c  h        = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =                   of U-boat "U-107"                        6th War Patrol.
				Beginning:    10.3.1942
				Ending:        11.7.1942
			Time:        D.G.Z.
			All naval squares
			Kommandant:       Kapitänleutnant Gelhaus.
			Distribution: 2 x O.K.M.   1 x B.d.U.   1 x 2.A.d.Uboote.   1 x 2.Uflottille.   1 x U-107.
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		10.03.42 -	Lorient	Up-keep by the Kriegsmarinewerft Lorient.
		17.04.42
		15.04.42	Lorient	Torpedo loading.
		16.04.42	Lorient	Degaussing and artillery ammunition loading.
		17.04.42		Sea trial and diving test, followed by battery overcharging.
		18.04.42		Provisions loading.
		19.04.42		Trim testing.
		20.04.42		Fitting out.
		21.04.42		Fresh provisions.
		19.45		Put to sea from Lorient.  In convoy to L 2, there released and departed on Route Cedernland/Tannennadel.
				Gelhaus.
		22.04.42
		00.00	Wind calm, Sea 0, overcast, misty, Vis. bad
		04.00	NE 1-2, Sea 1, overcast
		06.45		Dived to proceed submerged.
		12.00		Day's run:    120 nm    18 nm.
		21.30		Surfaced.  Continued transit on the surface.
				Gelhaus.
		23.04.42
		00.00	SbyE 1-2, Sea 1, 2/10, Vis. good
		04.00	W 0-1, Sea 1, 2/10, Vis. medium
		06.32		Crash dive for training.  Proceeded submerged.
		12.00		Day's run:    85 nm    54 nm.
		22.00	ENE 3-4, Sea 2-3, 3/10, Vis. good	Surfaced.  Proceeded on the surface.
				Gelhaus.
		24.04.42
		00.00	ENE 4, Sea 3-4, 7/10, medium swell, Vis. medium
		04.00	NE 5, Sea 4, overcast, Vis. poor
		07.05		Crash dive for training, proceeded submerged.
		12.00		Day's run:    81 nm    53 nm.

	Sun and Moon Data 21.04.42
	Sun and Moon Data 22.04.42
	Sun and Moon Data 23.04.42
	Sun and Moon Data 24.04.42

	- 2 -
		24.04.42
		22.45		Surfaced, proceeded on the surface.
				Gelhaus.
		25.04.42
		00.00	BE 6939	My initial objective is CB 90.  I am proceeding on the Great Circle.
			ENE 4, Sea 4, overcast, Vis. medium, light haze
		04.00	BE 6927
			ENE 3, Sea 3, overcast, Vis. medium, light rain
		12.00	BE 6851	Day's run:    103 nm    38 nm.
			SE 3, Sea 2-3, 9/10, Vis. good
		14.15		Crash dive for training.
		16.00	BE 6841
			SE 3, Sea 3, overcast, light mist
		18.15	BE 6751
		20.00	SE 3-4, Sea 3, overcast, rain showers
		21.04		Crash dive for training.
				Gelhaus.
		26.04.42
		00.00	BE 5363
			SE 4, Sea 3, overcast, Vis. medium, rain showers
		03.18		Short signal on alternate frequency B 3:  "Position is BE 67."  Was not confirmed.
		04.00	BE 5952
			SSW 2-3, 4/10, Vis. good
		07.37		Short signal on alternate frequency B 3,  This time it gets through.
		08.00	BE 5918
			SE 2, Sea 1-2, 8/10, Vis. medium
		11.43		Crash dive and test dive for training.
		12.00	BE 5829	Day's run:    160 nm    5 nm.
			E 3, Sea 3, 6/10, Vis. medium
		16.00	BE 5842
			NE 5, Sea 3, overcast, Vis. good
		20.00	BE 5761
			NE 4, Sea 3, 9/10, Vis. good
				Gelhaus.

	Sun and Moon Data 24.04.42
	Sun and Moon Data 25.04.42
	Sun and Moon Data 26.04.42

	- 3 -
		27.04.42
		00.00	BE 5743
			N 6, Sea 4, 7/10, medium Swell, hazy
		03.58		Short Signal "yes" sent, per Radio Message from Hardegen, concerning meeting point.
		04.00	BE 4993
			NE 3, Sea 3, 7/10, Vis. medium to good
		08.00	BE 7322
			NE 4, Sea 3, 8/10, Vis. medium
		09.20		Crash dive for training.  Followed by depth-keeping training.
		12.00	BE 7319	Day's run:  155 nm,  7 nm.
		16.00	BE 7269	Crash dive for training.
			NbyE 3, Sea 3, 3/10, Vis. good
		20.00	BE 7294
			N 3, Sea 3, 1/10, Vis. good
				Gelhaus.
		28.04.42
		00.00	BE 7287
			NW 2, Sea 1-2, 7/10, light Swell
		01.50		Crash dive for training.  Reached the meeting point with Hardegen, remained submerged moving back and forth in position.
		04.00	BE 7289
		08.00	BE 7289
		08.05		Surfaced and moved back and forth in position.  Hardegen not in sight.  At 11.00 hours bearing signals from Hardegen from 300°T.
				Radio Message:  You bear 300°T, running towards.
		11.44		Hardegen in sight.  U-boat Adressbuch transferred and transit continued.
		12.00	BE 7289	Day's run:  123 nm,  20 nm.
			NW 1, Sea 1, overcast, light Swell, Vis. very good
		16.00	BE 7277
			SW 3, Sea 2, overcast, light swell
		20.00	BE 7189
			SbyE 3, Sea 2-3, overcast, light rain, light swell
				Gelhaus.

	Sun and Moon Data 27.04.42
	Sun and Moon Data 28.04.42

	- 4 -
		29.04.42
		00.00	BE 7412
			SSE 5, Sea 4, overcast, medium swell, Vis. medium, rain showers
		08.00	BD 9624
			SSW 3, Sea 2-3, overcast, Vis. medium, medium swell
		12.00	BD 9613	Day's run:  163 nm.
			SW 3, Sea 2, overcast, light Swell, rain showers, Vis. medium
		15.52		Crash dive for training and draining and flooding training at great depth.
		20.00	BD 9517
			WNW 3-4, Sea 4, 6/10, Vis. good
				Gelhaus.
		30.04.42
		00.00	BD 9461
			WNW 4, Sea 3, 3/10, Vis. good
		04.00	BD 9446
		08.00	BD 8666
			W 4, Sea 3, 5/10, Vis. good
		12.00	BD 8658	Day's run:  157 nm,  14 nm.
			SW 4-5, Sea 3, 7/10, Vis. good
		16.00	BD 8672
			SSW 5, Sea 3-4, 9/10, Vis. good
		20.00	BD 8592
				Gelhaus.
		01.05.42
		00.00	BD 8586
			SW 6, Sea 5, rain showers, overcast
		03.13		Short Signal weather report.
		04.00	BD 8576
			SW 8, Sea 6-7, overcast, Vis. poor
		04.50		Dived, because in the bad weather, fuel oil consumption is high.
		08.00	BD 8577	Proceeding submerged results in less fuel oil consumption.
		12.00	BD 8577	Day's run:  63 nm,  17 nm.

	Sun and Moon Data 29.04.42
	Sun and Moon Data 30.04.42
	Sun and Moon Data 01.05.42

	- 5 -
		01.05.42
		16.00	BD 8499
			WSW 6-7, Sea 5-6, overcast
		20.00	BD 8499
			SW 5-6, Sea 4
				Gelhaus.
		02.05.42
		00.00	BD 8494
			WSW 4-5, Sea 3, 2/10, Vis. good
		04.00	BD 8488
		08.00	BD 8479
			SW 3, Sea 2, 9/10
		12.00	BD 8477	Day's run:  60 nm.
			SW 4-5, Sea 3-4, 5/10, Vis. good
		16.00	BD 7933
			SSW 4, Sea 3-4, 8/10, Vis. good
		20.00	BD 7934
			SSW 2, Sea 3, overcast, Vis. good
				Gelhaus.
		03.05.42
		00.00	BD 7924
			SSW 5, Sea 3, overcast, Vis. medium
		04.00	BD 7941
			SW 2-3, Sea 2, overcast, Vis. medium
		08.00	BD 7862
		12.00	BD 7854	Day's run:  130 nm.
			SSW 3, Sea 2-3, overcast, Vis. good
		16.00	BD 7847
		20.00	BD 7791
			N 3, Sea 2, overcast, Vis. good, misty horizon
				Gelhaus.
		04.05.42
		00.00	BD 7787
			N 1, Sea 1, overcast, rain showers
		04.00	CD 3122
			N 3, Sea 2, Vis. bad
		08.00	CD 2336
			NNW 6-7, Sea 4-5, Vis. medium

	Sun and Moon Data 01.05.42
	Sun and Moon Data 02.05.42
	Sun and Moon Data 03.05.42
	Sun and Moon Data 04.05.42

	- 6 -
		04.05.42
		12.00	CD 2328	Day's run:  148 nm.
			NbyW 4, Sea 3-4, 9/10, Vis. good
		15.30		Crash dive for training, followed by depth-keeping practice.
		16.00	CD 2344
		20.00	CD 2283
				Gelhaus.
		05.05.42
		00.00	CD 2277
			NW 4, Sea 3, 6/10, Vis. good
		04.00	CD 2422
		08.00	CD 1637
			WNW 3, Sea 2, 7/10
		11.38		Radio Message from B.d.U.:  To Gelhaus, new initial objective is CA 79.
		12.00	CD 1642	I am proceeding on the Great Circle.
			NW 1-2, Sea 1, overcast, Vis. good	Day's run:  182 nm,  5 nm.
		13.35		Crash dive for training.
		16.00	CD 1564	Artillery exercises.
			Wind 0, Sea 0, 7/10, Vis. good
		20.00	CD 1557
			WNW 2, Sea 2, 9/10, Vis. good
				Gelhaus.
		06.05.42
		00.00	CD 1571
			WNW 2, Sea 1, overcast, Vis. medium
		04.00	CD 1483
			NW 2, Sea 1, overcast, Vis. poor, fog
		08.00	CD 1448
			WSW 3, Sea 2, overcast, fog
		12.00	CC 3691	Day's run:  145 nm,  3 nm.
			WSW 2, Sea 1, overcast, fog
		16.00	CC 3676
			WSW 2, Sea 1, overcast, fog
		20.00	CC 3587
			SW 2, Sea 2, 5/10, fog
				Gelhaus.
		07.05.42
		00.00	CC 3499
			SW 2, Sea 2-3, overcast, Vis. good
		04.00	CC 3487
			NW 3, Sea 2, overcast, rain

	Sun and Moon Data 04.05.42
	Sun and Moon Data 05.05.42
	Sun and Moon Data 06.05.42
	Sun and Moon Data 07.05.42

	- 7 -
		07.05.42
		08.00	CC 3711
			NbyW 4, Sea 3, blue sky, Vis. good
		12.00	CC 2953	Day's run:  163 nm.
			NNW 3, Sea 2-3, 2/10, Vis. good	Great Circle abandoned, to avoid the strongest storms and to detect intersecting traffic in CA 98, 99 and 31, 32.
		16.00	CC 2944
		17.00
		20.00	CC 2859
			NNE 2, Sea 2, 3/10, Vis. good
				Gelhaus.
		08.05.42
		00.00	CC 5213
			WSW 2, Sea 1, 3/10, Vis. good
		04.00	CC 5134
		08.00	CC 5141
		12.00	CC 4355	Day's run:  153 nm.
			SW 2, Sea 1, 8/10, Vis. good
		16.00	CC 4371
			SW 3, Sea 2-3, 9/10, Vis. good
		19.41		Crash dive for training.
		20.00	CC 4284
			SW 3, Sea 2-3, 3/10
				Gelhaus.
		09.05.42
		00.00	CC 4199
			SSW 4, Sea 3, 2/10, Vis. good
		04.00	CC 4433
			SW 3, Sea 2-3, 8/10, Vis. medium
		08.00	CC 4437
			SW 4-5, Sea 3-4, overcast, Vis. medium to bad
		12.00	CC 4436	Day's run:  130 nm,  1 nm.
			SW 5, Sea 4, overcast, Vis. medium
		16.00	CC 4457
			SW 4, Sea 3, 7/10, Vis. good
		20.00	CC 4471
			SW 3, Sea 2-3, 4/10, Vis. good
				Gelhaus.

	Sun and Moon Data 07.05.42
	Sun and Moon Data 08.05.42
	Sun and Moon Data 09.05.42

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		10.05.42
		00.00	CB 6691
			WSW 2, Sea 1-2, 9/10, Vis. good
		04.00	CB 6688
			SW 3-4, Sea 2-3, 9/10, Vis. medium to bad
		08.00	CB 6678
			SSW 4, Sea 3-4, overcast, light rain, Vis. medium to bad
		12.00	CB 6832	Day's run:  108 nm.
			SW 4, Sea 2-3, 9/10, Vis. medium
		16.00	CB 6855
			SW 4, Sea 3, overcast, Vis. good
		20.00	CB 6849
			W 2-3, Sea 3, overcast, Vis. good
		20.05		Crash dive for training.
		21.55		Crash dive for training.
				Gelhaus.
		11.05.42
		00.00	CB 6792
			W 3, Sea 2-3, overcast, Vis. good
		04.00	CB 6788
			NW 2-3, Sea 2, 5/10, Vis. medium
		08.00	CB 9112
		12.00	CB 8332	Day's run:  149 nm,  4 nm.
			N 3-4, Sea 3, 8/10, Vis. good
		16.00	CB 8345
		19.56		Crash dive for training.
		20.00	CB 8268
			NbyE 2, Sea 1-2, 6/10, Vis. very good
				Gelhaus.
		12.05.42
		00.00	CB 8281
			N 3, Sea 2, 4/10, Vis. good
		04.00	CB 8189
			N 2, Sea 1, 4/10, Vis. medium

	Sun and Moon Data 10.05.42
	Sun and Moon Data 11.05.42
	Sun and Moon Data 12.05.42

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		12.05.42
		08.00	CB 8413
		12.00	CB 7762	Day's run:  160 nm, 1 nm.
			NE 2, Sea 1, 1/10, Vis. good
		16.00	CB 7657
		20.00	CB 7596
		21.14		Crash dive for training.
				Gelhaus.
		13.05.42
		00.00	CB 7588
			SE 1, Sea 0, 6/10, Vis. good
		04.00	CB 7739
		08.00	CB 7755
		12.00	CB 7749	Day's run:  157 nm,  2 nm.
			SE 1, Sea 1, 5/10, Vis. very good
		16.00	CA 9993
		20.00	CA 9988
			S 1-2, Sea 1, overcast, Vis. good
		23.13		Crash dive for training.
				Gelhaus.
		14.05.42
		00.00	DC 3214
			SW 1-2, Sea 1, 9/10, Vis. good
		04.00	DC 2336
			Wind 0, Sea 0, 3/10, Vis. medium
		08.00	DC 2352
		12.00	DC 2296
			SSW 2, Sea 1, 5/10, Vis. good
		16.00	DC 2288	Came to course 310°.  Although the boats have reported that no traffic runs along the coast to the north and south of Hatteras and so asked for freedom to hunt in the southern area, nevertheless I intend to go directly to the north of Hatteras close under the coast.  The northbound traffic reported by Suhren must go somewhere.  Also, I can not imagine that Baltimore and New York harbors will remain without traffic for a long time.
			SSE 2, Sea 1, 4/10, Vis. good

	Sun and Moon Data 12.05.42
	Sun and Moon Data 13.05.42
	Sun and Moon Data 14.05.42

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		14.05.42
		20.00	DC 2247
			SE 0-1, Sea 0-1, 3/10, Vis. good
		21.30		Radio Message from B.d.U. deciphered resulting in attack area of square MZ 7346.  The square must be encoded incorrectly, because then I would have to go on land.  CA 7346 is definitely meant.
		23.23		Crash dive for training.
				Gelhaus.
		15.05.42
		00.00	DC 2137
			SE 2, Sea 1, 2/10, Vis. good
		04.00	CA 8876
			SE 3, Sea 2-3, 2/10, Vis. medium
		08.00	CA 8764
			SSE 3, Sea 2, Vis. medium
		12.00	CA 8726	Day's run:  173 nm,  2 nm.
			SE 3, Sea 2, 6/10, Vis. good
		16.00	CA 8476
			SE 3, Sea 3, 2/10
		18.15	SE 3, Sea 2, 4/10	Crash dive for land-based aircraft.  Flew above the clouds and discovered us through a hole in the overcast.  At depth 30 meters a bomb positioned quite close.  Failures were repaired submerged.
		20.00	CA 8449
				Gelhaus.
		16.05.42
		00.00	CA 8446	After nightfall I intend to approach the coast on a westerly course bearing down on the light buoy to the south of "Currituck-Beach", to see whether traffic exists there, and in the morning out to 30 meters depth and laying there for the day on the bottom.
		03.56		Crash dive for an aircraft with a prominent red to purple-red light, which approached us.
		04.20	CA 8442	Surfaced.  The red light was seen again astern
			S 3-4, Sea 2-3, 3/10
		08.00		Due to the current I come substantially to the north, so that I have the "Currituck-Beach" lighthouse ahead.  I go to about

	Sun and Moon Data 14.05.42
	Sun and Moon Data 15.05.42
	Sun and Moon Data 16.05.42

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		16.05.42		10 nm off the coast, turned back then to be in 30 meters water depth at dawn.  No traffic discovered.
		11.00	CA 7635	Put the boat on the bottom at a depth of 30 meters.  In spite of 17 tons negative buoyancy the boat works very strongly on the bottom.  With the sea from this direction and with this strength one must go to deeper water.
			S 5, Sea 3-4, 5/10, Vis. medium to bad
		12.00		Day's run:  98 nm, 34 nm.
		17.05.42
		03.10		Boat rose from the bottom.  I intend to round the buoy to the south of "Currituck-Beach" to the north and then to run closely under the coast to the next buoy to the south.  To go from there to the east, dive when it is getting light and run submerged to find out whether north and southbound traffic runs between land and the 200-meter line by day.
		04.00	CA 7637	3 shadows to port.  It is a coast guard cutter with 2 patrol vessels.  Course approximately 110°.  Apparently they continued on in port echelon.  Avoided to the north and continued to CA 7628 lower-center edge, then on the next buoy.  No traffic discovered.  Lights as in peacetime.  Went to CA 7691 on course 85°.  In CA 7668 lies an uncharted buoy.  I suppose that it marks a wreck.
		08.00	CA 7667
			SW 1-2, Sea 0, 8/10, Vis. moderate, very heavy marine phosphorescence
		10.00	CA 7693
		10.34		Dived, continued to the east submerged.
		12.00	CA 8472	Day's run:  68 nm,  3 nm.
		16.00	CA 8473
		20.09		Surfaced, first ran off 10 nm to the east.  Ran to get away from the 200-meter line because there are usually aircraft there. Then to the south and at 23.00 hours again ran to the north. Also here no traffic.
				I intend to advance the next night to CA 7360 to position tomorrow submerged on the line connecting Hatteras-Winter Quarter light ship and to advance the next night to Cape Henry.

	Sun and Moon Data 16.05.42
	Sun and Moon Data 17.05.42

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		18.05.42
		00.00	N 2-3, Sea 2-3, 8/10, hazy, Vis. medium	Radio Message from B.d.U.:  Report situation.
		02.26		I sent the following Radio Message:  Nothing sighted during advance through naval square DC 2287 and in CA 8440 and 7600 nothing except a coast guard cruiser with 2 guard vessels in 7637.  Was not sighted.  Submerged by day.
				N 2-3, 8/10, hazy, 1034 mb steady, 127 cbm.
				Gelhaus.
		02.53	CA 8451	Boat is approached in advanced twilight by an aircraft from the dark horizon.  Aircraft employed floodlight. Immediately crash dived.  No bombs.
			NbyE 3, Sea 2-3, 9/10, Vis. good
		04.00	CA 8451
		08.00	CA 8428
			NbyE 2, Sea 1-2, 3/10, Vis. good
		10.30		At beginning of twilight dove and advanced submerged in the direction of CA 7360 where I want to search the next night for traffic.
		12.00	CA 8185	Day's run:  88 nm,  30 nm.
		16.00	CA 8181	No traffic discovered.
		20.00	CA 8149
		00.00	CA 8147
		19.05.42
		00.00	CA 8147	Surfaced.  Thick ground fog.  Under these circumstances an advance under the coast has no purpose.  Therefore, I proceed with 1 E-motor at KF on reciprocal heading.
		03.55	CA 7366
		06.00		The fog becomes little bit thinner.  The sky is clear
		06.20		An aircraft throws a flare bearing 130°T.  Distance approximately 5000 meters.  Shortly after, the aircraft flies over directly ahead of our bow.  Even at night with fog one is not safe before them.  The marine phosphorescence makes it very unpleasant.  I believe from the aircraft one can recognize the boat by the shining wake.
		06.55		It has cleared a little bit more.
		11.15		Dived.  It is still very hazy weather with low-hanging clouds.  Therefore, I decide to proceed submerged due to aircraft.

	Sun and Moon Data 18.05.42
	Sun and Moon Data 19.05.42

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		19.05.42		Radio Message from Gießler saying that his area, to the north of me also has no traffic.  I decide on the basis of the traffic situation off the coast, to ask the B.d.U. for another operations area to the south.  Apparently, the Americans have stopped the traffic and are waiting for the safety of bright northern nights.  The boats in the south report heavy traffic.  I still have 125 cbm and 7-weeks' provisions.  Also, still all torpedoes.  If I operate in the south, I can definitely get rid of my eels to best advantage.  If I do not resupply with fuel oil, I will have at least 35 cbm to use amongst the islands.  If however, I resupply like Krech and Hoffmann, I can proceed to the traffic-rich area of Folkers and operate there.
				Therefore I send the following Radio Message:
				Nothing seen in naval squares CA 8721 via 8181 to 7366.  Alert air day and night. Very heavy marine phosphorescence. Request shifting operations area to the south.
				Missing Serial Numbers 202-204 and 206 and 207.  125 cbm.  7 weeks' provisions.  Square 8145.
				Gelhaus.
		12.00	CA 8146	Day's run:  19 nm, 34 nm.
		18.13	NNE 1-2, Sea 1, 8/10, Vis. medium	Surfaced.  The visibility may have become better, but there are still low hanging clouds.
		20.00	CA 8191
			NW 1, Sea 1, 2/10, Vis. good
		20.05.42
		00.00	CA 8466
			ENE 2, Sea 1, 2/10, Vis. good
		01.13		Radio Message from B.d.U.:  Gelhaus free to maneuver to the south.
				I intend to go directly to the south to operate there under and between the islands to the east if I get no resupply.  However, if I am supplied, to operate to the south of Cuba in Folkers area.  Proceeding off the coast of Florida is not promising on the basis of the messages of "U-98", Rasch and Suhren.  Also now, on the basis of the messages, the bright moon period arrives and operating off the coast is not very promising with the strong air surveillance.

	Sun and Moon Data 19.05.42
	Sun and Moon Data 20.05.42

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		20.05.42
		08.00	CA 8882
			Wind 0, Sea 0, blue sky, Vis. very good
		12.00	DC 2125	Day's run:  135 nm, 15 nm.
			SSE 1, Sea 0, 4/10, Vis. very good
		16.00	DC 2182	Nothing observed.
			SE 2, Sea 1, 2/10, Vis. good
		20.00	DC 2425
			SSE 2, Sea 1, 4/10, Vis. very good
		21.05.42
		00.00	DC 2472
			SE 3, Sea 1, 5/10, Vis. good
		04.00	DC 2719
		08.00	DC 2776	To inform the B.d.U. of my intention to operate with supply to the south of Cuba and to receive certainty about the possibility of supply, I sent the following Radio Message:
				May I count on resupply?  If yes, EB 20 requested.
				High pressure weather, DC 2755, naval squares.
				Gelhaus.
		12.00	DC 5149	Day's run:  103 nm.
			SSE 2, Sea 1, 6/10, Vis. good
		12.34		Radio Message from B.d.U.:  To Gelhaus.
				1.)  Proceed via DM 60, DN 76 to operations area DM 70, 80, 90.  All naval squares.
				2.)  Fuel oil resupply at the earliest possibly from 15 June possibly in sea area 70 of the large square which lies to the west of CE.
				I will proceed via the Florida Strait and the Old Bahamas Channel to the south of Cuba.
				Course to the Florida Strait taken.
		16.00	DC 5419
			SSE 2, Sea 1, 6/10, Vis. good
		18.39		Crash dive for training.
		20.00	DC 4662
			S 1, Sea 0, 3/10, Vis. very good

	Sun and Moon Data 20.05.42
	Sun and Moon Data 21.05.42

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		22.05.42
		00.00	DC 4682
			S 1, Sea 0, overcast, Vis. very good
		04.00	DC 4569
		08.00	DC 4588
		12.00	DC 4844	Day's run:  179 nm,  4 nm.
			SSE 1, Sea 0, 8/10, Vis. good
		16.00	DC 4797	Nothing observed.
		20.00	DC 7127
			SE 3, Sea 2, 3/10, Vis. good
		23.05.42
		00.00	DC 7147
		00.03	S 2, Sea 1, 1/10, Vis. good	Crash dive for training.
		04.00	DB 9389
		08.00	DB 9619
		12.00	DB 9596	Day's run:  182 nm,  1 nm
			W 3-4, Sea 2-3, 8/10, Vis. good
		20.00	DB 9851
			W 2, Sea 1-2, 2/10, Vis. very good
		20.37		Crash dive for 4 aircraft.
				I intend going through the center of the Florida Straits.  Because it is only dark at night for 2-1/2 to 3 hours, moreover, at night with the clear weather and bright moonshine, I do not want to go under the coast at night.  According to the last report from Suhren, the steamers went in the center of the Straits.
		23.01		Crash dive for aircraft.
		23.50		Crash dive for aircraft.
		24.05.42
		00.00	DB 9881
		04.00	DM 2334
			SSE 2, Sea 1-2, 7/10, Vis. good
		08.00	DM 2359
			SSE 2, Sea 1-2, 5/10, Vis. good

	Sun and Moon Data 22.05.42
	Sun and Moon Data 23.05.42

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		24.05.42
		12.00	DM 2389	Day's run:  143 nm,  5 nm.
			SSW 1, Sea 0-1, 1/10, Vis. very good
		12.42		Crash dive for aircraft.
		13.27		Crash dive for aircraft.
		14.14		Crash dive for aircraft.
		16.00	DM 2626
			W 1, Sea 0-1, 3/10, Vis. good
		16.35		A tug with two artillery targets, course north, avoided.
		20.00	DM 2691
			N 1, Sea 0-1, 1-2/10, Vis. good
		20.15		Crash dive for aircraft.  The beasts fly so very high, that one recognizes them only late.
		20.50	DM 2686	A steamer (tanker) on a northerly course in sight.  Maneuvered ahead to the north.  In so doing, was sighted by an aircraft at 23.40 hours and forced to submerge.  Aircraft flew quite high and was seen only as it approached.  Crash dive!  Still attempting to approach the steamer submerged.  Because target angle was only approximately 10-15°.
		00.10		Again at periscope depth.  I do not spot the steamer in the periscope and so surfaced - the steamer had turned away sharply, target angle about 120° and distance of 10000 meters.  Because he can see me, I dive again.  Besides, the aircraft still is there.  Therefore, I dive again.  I remain submerged until it gets dark and then surface and continue my advance.
		25.05.42
		00.00	DM 2694
		04.00	DM 2961	Advance through the Santaren Channel.  No traffic and no patrol vessels noted.
			E 0-1, Sea 0, 9/10, Vis. good
		12.00	DM 6174	Day's run:  160 nm,  10 nm.
			SSW 1, Sea 0-1, 8/10, Vis. good
		16.00	DM 6427	Advance through the Old Bahamas Channel.
			SSW 1, Sea 0-1, 6/10
		19.02		Because I must go now through the narrow channel in sight of land I dive when I have the lighthouse of "Cayo Paredón" in sight, and continue submerged.

	Sun and Moon Data 24.05.42
	Sun and Moon Data 25.05.42

	- 17 -
		25.05.42
		20.00	DM 6548
		23.20	DM 6549	A small freighter about 800 tons in size comes to sight on a westerly course.  Not worth a torpedo.  An artillery attack does not appear favorable to me in the narrows, so I let him go.
		26.05.42
		00.00	DM 6581	Advance in the Old Bahamas Channel.  Lights burning as in peacetime.  No further observations.
		02.38		Surfaced.  I continue the advance on 1 E-motor at KF to find out whether traffic moves in the channel at night.
		04.00	DM 6594	No traffic, no patrols noticed.
			E 0-1, Sea 0, 9/10, Vis. good
		08.00	DM 6599
		12.00	DM 6514	Day's run:  23 nm,  41 nm.
			ENE 3, Sea 1, 6/10, Vis. medium
		13.21	DM 6914	A small vessel about 250 tons in size in sight 20° to port.  Course for the Bahamas Channel.  Apparently a small inter-island steamer.  Use of artillery off the entrance is not favorable, let him go.
		16.00	DM 6915
			NE 2, Sea 1, 9/10, Vis. very good
		18.24		A smoke trail comes in sight to starboard.  Closed.  A steamer just off the coast.  I believe it lies in the roadstead off the entrance to Puerto de Nuevitas and hope to be able to sink him there.  Initially running on the surface, then submerged off the entrance.  While doing so a coast guard vessel, quite new construction comes out of the entrance, goes immediately on a north-west course and runs past out of range.  Little bit later another heavily smoking ship comes into sight from east on course for the entrance. Attempted to get to it however, it also passes by out of range.  As I get closer I determine that the steamer I am operating on lies behind a tongue of land.  However, because he smokes so heavily, I hope that he will emerge soon and I position off the harbor moving back and forth.

	Sun and Moon Data 25.05.42
	Sun and Moon Data 26.05.42

	- 18 -
		27.05.42
		02.19		The steamer still remains stopped.  Surfaced with advancing darkness and went back and forth off the entrance.  I want to wait until the morning to see if the steamer puts to sea.
		12.00	DM 6956	Continued advance when it was getting light at 12.00 hours and the steamer had still not put to sea.
			E 2, Sea 1, overcast, Vis. good
		16.00	DM 6969
			EbyS 4, Sea 1,-2, overcast, Vis. good
		17.03		To starboard a cloud of smoke, a small coastal freighter moving along the coast.  I do not operate on it.  In the course of the afternoon still 3 other clouds of smoke come into sight along the coast.  The bearing for 2 of these did not change, they were smoke arising over land.  One of the bearings certainly changed, however, nothing could be seen.  Because of the close proximity of the coast I did not operate further on it.
		20.00	DN 4782
			NE 2, Sea 2, overcast, Vis. good
		28.05.42
		00.00	DN 4799
			E 3, Sea 2, overcast, Vis. good
		02.30		Port diesel out of service, as the coolant pump must be serviced.
		04.00	DN 7224
			NE 3-4, Sea 3, overcast, lightening, Vis. medium, rain
		12.00	DN 7358	Day's run:  171 nm.
		12.23	DN 7364	Masthead bearing 140°.  A steamer on a northerly course in DN 7395.  Maneuvered ahead and dived to attack.  In so doing, determined that he was a Chilean.  Had the Chilean colors and "Chile" painted forward and aft on the side of the hull and on the cabin had a big shield with Chilean colors.  Named "RAPEL".  He is not registered in Gröner and "Merchant Ships".  Since neutral let it go. Stopping in the northwest passage, where strong air was reported, did not seem sensible to me.
		16.00	DN 7368
			ESE 2, Sea 1, 2/10, Vis. good
		20.00	DN 8414
			E 3, Sea 1, 5/10, misty, Vis. medium

	Sun and Moon Data 27.05.42
	Sun and Moon Data 28.05.42

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		28.05.42
		21.33		Crash dive for aircraft.
		29.05.42
		00.00	DN 7691	Passed Cape Maysí in sight of land.
			NE 2, Sea 1, 8/10, misty, Vis. medium
		00.41	DN 7686	A cloud of smoke in sight directly ahead. Steamer's position is approximately DN 7922.  The bearing did not shift as it approached me, therefore it must close at target angle 0°.  As stack and masts appear, dived for attack.  Steamer is heading 30°.  Shot from tubes I and II.  Multiple independent shots.  Target speed 11 knots, target angle 90° and 96°.
				Aim point forward and aft mast.
				Hits after 25 and 31.5 seconds.
			DN 7686	First hit at the forward edge of the bridge.  Second at the after mast.  Both with high tongues of flame and heavy smoke.  Afterwards the boat cut under.  Once the periscope was again clear after 1.5 minutes there was nothing to see of the steamer.  Surfaced.  Only an oil slick and some wreckage and a light similar to a night life buoy light sighted.  600 meter wavelength monitored immediately on surfacing, nothing heard.
				Steamer was a normal cargo steamer, straight stem, lowered deck area [where the gunwale is at the same height as the deck], mast, high and quite compact bridge. Thin stack, quite close behind the bridge, there and behind it several lights and small masts, the stern mast, raised aftership.  I cannot give an exact description of the steamer, because I saw him only badly in the darkness in the periscope and only just before shooting could I see clearly.  I shot 2 torpedoes, because I could not determine the speed and could not determine the target angle exactly in the bad lighting.  I estimate him at approximately 5000 tons.  Topmast was similar to the "AMERICAN".
				After firing returned to the old course, after 1 hour with 1 E-motor KF, because I hope to strike here even more.
		04.00	DN 7685
			NE 3-4, Sea 3-4, 9/10, Vis. good
		08.00	DN 7921
			N 2-3, Sea 1-2, 3/10, Vis. good, summer lightening

	Sun and Moon Data 28.05.42
	Sun and Moon Data 29.05.42

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		29.05.42
		12.00	DN 7919	Day's run:  129 nm,  14 nm.
			NNE 2, Sea 1
		12.35		As the coast of Haiti is in sight came to course 270°.
		16.00	DN 7864
			NE 2, Sea 1, overcast, Vis. good
		20.00	DN 7845
			ENE 3, Sea 2, overcast, Vis. good
		21.18		Radio Message from B.d.U.:  Gelhaus short situation report.
		30.05.42
		00.00	DN 7755
			ENE 2-3, Sea 2, overcast, Vis. medium to good
		00.43		Radio Message sent:
				1)  No traffic, no sea patrol, strong air patrol through the middle of Florida Strait to square 2688.  There on 24 May tanker course north, forced to submerge by an aircraft, Santaren Channel no traffic, no air patrol, no sea patrol, Bahamas Channel and off the coast small coastal freighters, no sea patrol, and no air patrol, square 7395 Chilean "RAPEL" course north, square 7686 freighter of 5000 tons sunk course 30°.  In the [Windward] Passage an aircraft.
				2)  98 cbm, 12-6 torpedoes.  Can I assume 30 cbm?  naval square 7755.
				Gelhaus.
		04.00	DM 9964
			EbyS 2, Sea 1, 9/10, Vis. medium, lightening, rain showers
		05.11		Radio Message from B.d.U.:  Gelhaus go to Winter's area. [DM 70-80].  Supply of 40 cbm is scheduled.
		30.05.42
		08.00	DM 9856
			NE 3, Sea 3, 9/10, Vis. medium
		12.00	DM 9855	Day's run:  241 nm,  5 nm.
			ENE 2, Sea 1, 5/10, Vis. good
		13.50		Crash dive for training.

	Sun and Moon Data 29.05.42
	Sun and Moon Data 30.05.42

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		30.05.42
		16.00	DM 9766
			ENE 2, Sea 1, 8/10, Vis. good
		20.00	DM 9754
			NE 2, Sea 1, 5/10, Vis. good
		31.05.42
		00.00	DM 9774
			E 3, Sea 2, overcast, rain showers
		04.00	EB 2337
			E 4-5, Sea 3-4, overcast, Vis. poor, rain showers
		08.00	EB 2357
			NE 4-5, Sea 3-4, overcast, Vis. poor, rain
		12.00	EB 2533	Day's run:  173 nm,  1 nm.
			E 4, Sea 3, overcast, Vis. medium
		14.24		Smoke cloud in sight bearing 100°T.  Closed.  In EB 2617 a steamer on course 310°.  Maneuvered to get ahead and dove.  In the periscope nothing was seen of the steamer other than the smoke because of high sea and heavy rain squalls.  Nothing heard in the listening gear because both sets are out of service.  By plotting the steamer must be here, however I still cannot see him, surfaced briefly and looked.  Seen faintly in rain and dived again.  Because he is not seen after a time in the periscope surfaced once more and looked.  Not sighted at first, then seen at short range target angle 0°, dived again and initiated attack.  The boat can only be held at HF in the high seas.  I got very close to the steamer. about 150 meters.  Shot at this range at 17.45 hours passes probably too close for the torpedo to arm and therefore surfaced and maneuvered ahead again.  At 22.00 hours am ahead of him.  Dived, initiated attack.  00.15 hours shot from tube V and VI, target angle 90° and 88°, target speed 10 knots, range 1000 meters, aim point forward mast and after edge of the bridge.  With the first torpedo the target angle was wrong, therefore a miss.  The second is unexplained.  Again ran off, surfaced and again maneuvered ahead.  After this approach the steamer suddenly began to zig zag, I do not believe that he had seen me.
		16.08	EbyS 5, Sea 4-5, overcast, heavy rain squalls, Vis. very poor

	Sun and Moon Data 30.05.42
	Sun and Moon Data 31.05.42

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		31.05.42		Probably have in both [illegible word] on the 600 meter wave [illegible two words], even though both boats were reported in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Florida Strait.
		01.06.42
		03.54	EB 2119	Shot on the surface from tube V, target angle 98°, target speed 10 knots, range 1000 meters, aim point smoke stack.  After 50 seconds a high explosion column with white smoke development between the fore mast and the bridge.  Steamer settles immediately forward and within a half minute sinks over the fore stem.
				Steamer was fully loaded, had an extended Mayer bow, prominent lowered deck area [where the gunwale is at the same height as the deck] forward and aft, forward mast, very large bridge with long superstructure, for passenger transport, high smokestack, between smokestack and bridge [illegible word], behind the smokestack ventilators and small masts, after mast, high cabin with superstructure was however broad and very long.  At the shot the section between the masts did not fit in the binoculars at the shot.  Estimate him at least 7000 GRT.  Did not transmit.
		00.00	EB 2130
		04.00	EB 2116
			ENE 2, Sea x, 9/10, Vis. medium
		08.00	DM 8792
			E 2-3, Sea 2, overcast, rain, Vis. medium
		12.00	DM 8793	Day's run:  150 nm,  10 nm.
			E 4, Sea 3, 7/10, Vis. medium
		14.05		Crash dive for aircraft.
		16.00	DM 8765
			SE 4, Sea 3-4, 7/10, Vis. good, rain, Swell
		20.00	DM 8784
			SE 2, Sea 3, 7/10, Swells, Vis. good
		21.57		Two smoke clouds bearing 300°T, maneuvered ahead and closed.  Held contact.  After a few minutes 4 ships and 2 destroyers emerge on course 120°.  I am positioned nearly ahead of them and run at high speed anead of them to reach target angle 0°.

	Sun and Moon Data 31.05.42
	Sun and Moon Data 01.06.42

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		01.06.42	EB 2113	They appear to be very fast, in spite of my high speed the range does not decrease.  At 22.28 hours a flying boat dives on us.  I give the alarm and want to attack the formation submerged.  Unfortunately, oil has run from the transmission of the rear diving plane into the motor, making it inoperable, so that the rear diving plane can be operated only by hand.  In the high swell and otherwise duck pond sea it will be difficult but must be attempted.
			Wind calm, Sea flat, Swell, 3/10, Vis. very good
				The boat can not be held on course despite all hands maneuvers and up to 1 motor HF, 1 motor LF.  The soldiers technique with the after diving plane is not as quick as is necessary in the swell.  We constantly oscillate between coming out and 25 meters.  The convoy consists of 4 medium-sized passenger steamers and 2 American 4 smokestack destroyers.  The speed amounts to 14-15 knots.  Because the boat can not steer at periscope depth I break off the submerged attack.  With the speed of 14 knots I can reach the convoy again in 10 hours at the earliest.  My diving plane will still not be in service by then and I must attack submerged due to the moon.  Therefore I let him go and repaired the motor first while submerged.  The motor must be totally removed and cleaned.  Hopefully it is not so heavily charred, that it has shorted.  I must remain submerged, because with the clumsiness of the boat the motor would be smashed and besides, the linkage of the hand drive must be temporarily removed because otherwise the motor can not be removed.
		02.06.42
		00.00	EB 2113
		04.00	EB 2128	The motor is removed, therefore I surface.  Possibly I will still get something in the darkness.
		08.00	EB 2158
			SE 3, Sea 2, 3/10, Swell, Vis. good
		12.00	EB 2425	Day's run:  96 nm,  33 nm.
			W 3, Sea 2, 6/10	Because the motor is again ready for installation, dove and the rear diving plane is repaired.

	Sun and Moon Data 01.06.42
	Sun and Moon Data 02.06.42

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		02.06.42
		16.07	EB 2457	Surfaced.
			S 1, Sea 0, 6/10, light Swell	Because it has grown very calm, I decide to transfer the 6 over deck torpedoes tonight.
		20.00	EB 1359
			W 5, Sea 1, 3/10, Vis. very good
		03.06.42
		00.00	EB 1312	Over deck torpedoes transferred.
			ESE 1, Sea 0, 7/10, slight Swell
		04.00	EB 1235
			ENE 1, Sea 0-1, 3/10, Vis. very good
		08.00	EB 1262	Test dive.
		12.00	EB 1234	Day's run:  147 nm, 14 nm.
			NNE 1, Sea 1, 5/10, Vis. good
		15.15		Crash dive for flying boat.
		16.00	DM 7858
		20.00	DM 7813
			E 2, Sea 1, 3/10, Vis. very good
		04.06.42
		00.00	DM 7545
			NE 1, Sea 0, 3/10, Vis. very good
		04.00	DM 7433
		08.00	DM 7195
		12.00	DM 7168	Day's run:  138 nm,  3 nm.
			NE 1, Sea 1, 4/10, Vis. very good
		13.55
		16.00	DM 7153	Crash dive for flying boat.
		20.00	DM 7125
			NE 1, Sea 0, 3/10, Vis. very good
		21.14	DM 7119	In square DM 7142 two mast heads.  One steamer on course 325°.  Through the extended periscope I can make out that he has very wide low smoke stack and large passenger superstructure.  A derrick mast forward, presumably heavy lift, beige colored.

	Sun and Moon Data 02.06.42
	Sun and Moon Data 03.06.42
	Sun and Moon Data 04.06.42

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		04.06.42
				Immediately attempted to maneuver ahead. After one hour the bearing had shifted 1° astern, range remained the same.  I could check this, because the smoke stack could just be seen in the low swell on the horizon. This meant the steamer was just as fast as I was.  I ran at AK.  I cannot get him and let him go with a heavy heart.
		22.11		Turned away.
		05.06.42
		00.00	DM 7115
			E 0, Sea 0, 3/10, Vis. good
		04.00	DL 9391
		08.00	DL 9627
			SE 2, Sea 1, 4/10, Vis. good
		12.00	DL 9671	Day's run:  185 nm.
			SE 2, Sea 1, 5/10, Vis. good
		16.00	DL 9655
		20.00	DM 7414	Radio message from B.d.U.:  Report situation.
			ENE 1, Sea 0, 3/10, Vis. good
		20.25		Flying boat in sight.
		22.16		Crash dive for flying boat.
		06.06.42
		00.00	DM 7185	05.45 hours I sent the following situation report:
			ENE 1, Sea 0, 6/10, Vis. good	1.)  Sighted:  1 June KB 2113 4 passenger freighters, 2 destroyers and a flying boat, course 120°, 14 knots.  4 June DM 7141 passenger vessel course 325°, 16 knots.
				2.)  Sank:  1 June KB 2119 passenger freighter 7000 GRT 320°, two flying boats by day no sea escort.
				3.)  8  6 torpedoes below deck, 79 cbm, DM 7168, all naval squares.        Gelhaus.
		04.00	DM 7164
		08.00	DM 7162
		12.00	DM 7163	Day's run:  121 nm,  3 nm.
			E 1-2, Sea 1, 2/10, Vis. medium
		14.00		Flying boat in sight.
		16.00	DM 7224
			SSE 3, Sea 2, 8/10, Vis. good

	Sun and Moon Data 04.06.42
	Sun and Moon Data 05.06.42
	Sun and Moon Data 06.06.42

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		06.06.42
		20.00	DM 7216	Flying boat in sight.
		22.00
		23.50		Steamer in sight.  Course 125°, heavy zig zag, runs at 13 - 14 knots, maneuvered ahead.
		07.06.42
		00.00	DM 7138
			SE 2-3, Sea 2, 6/10, Vis. good
		04.00	DM 7287
		04.08		Shot from tube I, target angle 96°, target speed 13 knots, range 530 meters, aim point smokestack, 1 Ato, depth 3 meters.
				Hit after 26 seconds between superstructure deck and after mast.  Steamer burns, settles astern and sinks within three minutes over the stern post.  After the hit gave a short tone with his whistle.  Steamer was a passenger freighter.  It was determined the next day from a fished out buoy, that it was named "CASTILLA" from Tela (Honduras), 4100 GRT according to "Merchant Ships".
				After the shot ran off.
		08.00	DM 7528
			SE 2-3, Sea 2, 3/10, Vis. good
		12.00	DM 7543	Day's run:  145 nm.
			ESE 3, Sea 2, 5/10, Vis. medium	After dawn ran to the shooting location, to determine the name of the ship if possible.
		13.40		Three rafts with survivors in sight.  They are all colored.
		13.52		Flying boat in sight, stubbornly keeps to his course.
				A life buoy is taken.  It is gray overall.  With a marking P 3 - The gray paint is washed so that one can read "CASTILLA".
				Ran off to the west.
		16.00	DM 7515
			SE 2-3, Sea 2, Vis. good
		20.00	DM 7425
		20.07		Crash dive for flying boat.
		20.45		Smoke cloud in sight in DM 7455.  A steamer on course 300°, speed 9 knots, maneuvered ahead.

	Sun and Moon Data 06.06.42
	Sun and Moon Data 07.06.42

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		07.06.42
		21.29		Flying boat in sight.  Remained on the surface, although it passes quite closely.  Not detected.
		08.06.42
		00.00	DL 9639
		00.24		I am positioned ahead of the steamer and dive to attack.
		01.19		Shot from tube I, target angle 94°, speed 9 knots, range = 1000 meters, depth 3 meters, aim point smokestack, 1 Eto.  After 73 seconds hit at the after edge of the smokestack.  High water and steam column.  Crew goes immediately to the boats.  Steamer takes on a list to port and sinks by the stern.  After about 2 minutes surfaced and drove through the wreckage, in so doing took 2 painted over life buoys and 1 marked "SUWIED".  Steamer was "SUWIED", 3250 GRT.  Ran off to the west.
		04.00	DL 9635
			E 3, Sea 2-3, 8/10, Vis. good
		08.00	DL 9624
			ESE 3, Sea 2-3, 7/10, Vis. good
		12.00	DL 9616	Day's run:  139 nm,  6 nm.
		14.25		Steamer in sight in DL 9288, zig zagging very heavily.  Maneuvered ahead.  In so doing a corvette comes high out to starboard at 16.13 hours due to the un-alert bridge watch, has target angle 0° and is smoking heavily.  Put corvette astern  and ran off at AK.  Quite slowly the distance becomes smaller.  I go slowly to a southerly course, to get at the steamer again which must steer approximately 130°.
		17.09		A flying boat comes in sight, flies to the corvette, circles there and then flies towards us.  I believe that he has sighted us therefore crash dive.  Shortly after diving two vague bangs were heard.  I remained submerged until 19.29 hours, surfaced and pursued the steamer.
		20.00	DL 9671
		23.20		Flying boat comes in sight again.  I stop so that it can not discover me so easily.

	Sun and Moon Data 07.06.42
	Sun and Moon Data 08.06.42

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		09.06.42
		00.00	DL 9937
			E 0, Sea 0, 7/10, Vis. good
		00.02		A masthead comes in sight to port abeam.  Through the periscope I can see it is the same patrol vessel that we had evaded this morning.  This time he has another attached to starboard astern.  I dive and look at him again in the periscope.  On the surface the sea is quite smooth with little swell, I go deep before him and do not attack him.
		03.09	Wind 0, Sea 0, Vis. poor, no visible horizon	Surfaced and ran to the area where I had sunk the last two steamers.
		04.00	DL 9932
		08.00	DM 7444
			SE 1, Sea 1, 3/10, Vis. good
		12.00	DM 7178	Day's run:  191 nm,  15 nm.
			ESE 0-1, Sea 0, 1/10, Vis. medium
		14.00		Proceeded on course 255° the basis of the Radio Message from Poske.
		16.00	DL 9393
		20.00	DL 9573
		22.50	DL 9295	A smoke cloud to starboard abeam.  Steamer with a broad target angle in DL 9267, course 180°.  Smoking sometimes so heavily that I can not make out the target angle.  Maneuvered ahead.
		23.00		Flying boat in sight relatively close.  Remained on the surface.
		10.06.42
		00.00	DL 9298
			SSE 2, Sea 1, 4/10, Swell
		00.36		Positioned ahead of the steamer and dived.  I intend to shoot a stern shot.  Because I turn towards too late, the enemy passes by without me being able to shoot.
		04.00	DL 9561	Ran off submerged and at 01.20 hours surfaced and pursued the steamer.
				04.49 hours am again positioned ahead of him and set up for a stern attack on the surface.  05.01 hours shot from tube V, Ato, target angle 84.5°, enemy speed 11 knots, range 1000 meters, depth 2 meters, aim point smoke stack.  After 52 seconds hit between superstructure and forward mast.  Explosion column above the mast height, steamer burns, takes a slight list to starboard and settles deeper forward.  About 5 minutes after the hit transmits an SOS.

	Sun and Moon Data 09.06.42
	Sun and Moon Data 10.06.42

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		10.06.42
				Reports on the 600-meter wave "SOS, SOS de w u y r position lat 1947N long 8555W submarine torpedoed at 03.05.
				"The call sign is not clear, it was also taken as w a y r.
				After the hit the engine kept running and the steamer turned hard starboard.  After about 25 minutes the fore ship had settled such that water runs in the boiler room and apparently fire was extinguished.  After 38 minutes the steamer stands on its fore ship and goes quickly under.
				The name of the steamer can not be ascertained on the basis of the radio call sign because it is not recorded in the book.  I estimate him at about 4000 GRT.  He was a normal freighter with two masts, lowered deck area forward and astern, smoke stack quite far behind the bridge.  At the level of the smoke stack on each side one small mast.
				After the sinking ran off on course 0°.
		08.00	DL 9529
			E 2, Sea 1, 4/10, Vis. medium
		12.00	DL 9256	Day's run:  198 nm, 6 nm.
			E 2, Sea 1, 4/10, Vis. medium
		16.00	DL 9273
			SE 2-3, Sea 2, 7/10, Vis. good
		16.14		Crash dive for flying boat.
		20.00	DL 9272
			EbyS 4, Sea 3, 8/10, Vis. medium
		20.33		Crash dive for flying boat.
		23.18		Crash dive for flying boat.
		11.06.42
		00.00	DL 9265
		04.00	DL 9318
			ESE 4, Sea 3, 2/10, Vis. medium
		08.00	DL 9355
		12.00	DL 9372	Day's run:  76 nm,  15 nm.
			ESE 3-4, Sea 3, 5/10, medium Swell, Vis. medium
		16.00	DL 9526

	Sun and Moon Data 10.06.42
	Sun and Moon Data 11.06.42

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		11.06.42
		20.00	DL 9543	On checking the internal fuel tanks it was discovered that from tank 1 internal port - 4.5 cbm, 1 internal starboard - 2 cbm, 2 internal starboard - 1 cbm, fuel was missing, whose loss was can not be explained.  Pumping can at most explain the loss of 2 cbm from 1 i starboard. Based on information at hand, operating errors were not made. The fuel transfer was supervised by the Engineering Officer.
		12.06.42
		00.00	DL 9581
			SSE 3-4, Sea 3, 3/10, Vis. good
		04.00	DL 9595
			SE 4, Sea 3, 4/10, Vis. medium
		08.00	DL 9913
		12.00	DL 9937	Day's run:  162 nm.
			ESE 4, Sea 3, 2/10, Vis. good
		16.00	DL 9949
			SE 3, Sea 2, 2/10, Vis. good
		20.00	EA 3316	Radio Message from B.d.U.:  Report situation.
		13.06.42
		00.00	EA 3356
			E 4, Sea 3, 4/10, Vis. good
		04.00	EA 3395
		04.20		I give the following situation report:
				1.)  8 June freighter square 9522 SW-course, forced off by corvette and flying boat and hunted.  10 June square 92, 93, 95, 96, 99 no sightings.  Since 11 June no air.
				2.)  Sank 7 June square 7287 "CASTILLA" course 125°, 8 June square 9635 "SUWIED" course 300°.  10 June square 9567 freighter radio call sign "F U Y R" course 100°, all naval square Dora Lucie.
				3.)  49 cbm, 7 + 4 torpedoes, EA 3368, trade wind weather.          Gelhaus.
				I don't understand the situation report from Poske.  I am still in the same area and see nothing. I will now proceed farther to the east.

	Sun and Moon Data 11.06.42
	Sun and Moon Data 12.06.42
	Sun and Moon Data 13.06.42

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		13.06.42
		08.00	EB 1179
			ESE 3-4, Sea 2-3, 4/10, Vis. medium
		12.00	EB 1197	Day's run:  151 nm.
		13.40		Test dive.
		16.00	EB 1277
			SE 3-4, Sea 3, 4/10, Vis. good
		20.00	EB 1256
			EbyS 1, Sea 1, 4/10
		14.06.42
		00.00	EB 1345
		04.00	EB 1368
		08.00	EB 2149
			ESE 2, Sea 1, 6/10, Vis. good
		12.00	EB 2168	Day's run:  164 nm,  2 nm.
		13.53		Crash dive for flying boat.
		16.00	EB 2193
			SE 2, Sea 1-2, 4/10, Vis. good
		20.00	EB 2256	Because I only have 43 cbm of fuel oil, I now advance slowly homeward.  I intend to pass south of Jamaica and Haiti and go through the Mona Passage.  On this route I hope at least to still locate a steamer.
			ESE 2, Sea 1, 4/10, Vis. good
		15.06.42
		00.00	EB 2343
		04.00	EB 2364	At dawn the coast of Jamaica comes in sight.  I drive along between the coast and the Bank to the south so that perhaps I will see a steamer.
		08.00	EB 3146
		12.00	EB 3168	Day's run:  138 nm,  4 nm.
			ESE 1, Sea 1, 2/10, Vis. good
		16.00	EB 3288	According to a new assessment, another 700 liters of fuel area now missing from the starboard external fuel tank.
		20.00	EB 3538
			E 2-3, Sea 2, 4/10, Vis. good

	Sun and Moon Data 13.06.42
	Sun and Moon Data 14.06.42
	Sun and Moon Data 15.06.42

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		16.06.42
		00.00	EB 3645
			E 3-4. Sea 2-3, 6/10, Vis. good
		04.00	EB 3665	After nightfall lights in the direction of "Kingston"  every 10 minutes a very strong searchlight on the horizon.
		08.00	EC 1457
		12.00	EC 1547	Day's run:  174  nm.
			E 3, Sea 2, 4/10, Vis. good
		12.20		Test dive.
		16.00	EC 1583
		20.00	EC 1676
		17.06.42
		00.00	EC 1695
			ESE 3, Sea 2, 3/10, Vis. good
		04.00	EC 2484
		08.00	EC 2493
		11.59		Crash dive for training.
		12.00	EC 2581	Day's run:  180 nm.
			E 2-3, Sea 2-3, 8/10, Vis. good
		16.00	EC 2647
		20.00	EC 2652
		18.06.42
		00.00	EC 3441
			E 2, Sea 1, 8/10, Vis. good
		08.00	EC 3542
		12.00	EC 3561	Day's run:  175 nm.
			EbyS 3, Sea 2, 2/10, Vis. good
		16.00	EC 3643
		20.00	EC 3638
			SE 3, Sea 2, 5/10, Vis. good

	Sun and Moon Data 16.06.42
	Sun and Moon Data 17.06.42
	Sun and Moon Data 18.06.42

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		19.06.42
		00.00	ED 1427
			SE 3, Sea 2-3, 6/10, Vis. good
		04.00	ED 1435
			E 3, Sea 2-3, 3/10, Vis. good
		08.00	ED 1279
			E 3, Sea 2-3, 2/10, Vis. good
		11.02		A shadow detected bearing 30°T.  Took ahead.  Looks like a patrol vessel.  Angled off a bit to get a better identification.  Was recognized as a sailing vessel.  Despite the beginning of twilight and the heavy air reported by other boats I decide to sink the sailing vessel with artillery.   He drives dimmed.  Therefore without warning.  He catches fire after the second shot.  He was loaded with a combustible liquid which burns and continues to run out on the water.  When the boat lies in flames up to the after mast, turned away.  Crash dive!! because a flying boat coming towards us out of the dusk quite high.  Initially continued submerged.  In this area, heavy air is reported from the other boats.  I will continue transit submerged until Mona Island is well astern.
		12.00	ED 1166
			E 2, Sea 1-2, 4/10
		16.05	ED 1162	Propeller sounds, heard very fast.  Went to periscope depth.  Beyond range a passenger steamer on course 250°.
		16.39		Surfaced.  Steamer is still seen with masts and smokestack and the bridge.  Immediately ran at high speed behind him, however he runs faster than me, also at AK I can not come closer.  Steamer passes out of sight.
		18.00	ED 1134
			E 2, Sea 1-2, 7/10, Vis. good
		18.37		Crash dive for aircraft.
		20.00	DO 7798
			E 2, Sea 1-2, 7/10
		21.24		Crash dive for aircraft.  Aircraft was already very large when recognized.  It came out of the haze on the port side.  I remain initially up to 22.40 hours submerged and hope that the visibility will be better again.  On surfacing however it is still bad.  Therefore I dive again and remain submerged up to darkness.

Sun and Moon Data 19.06.42

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		20.06.42
		00.00	DO 7769
		02.24		Surfaced.
		03.33		Crash dive for aircraft.  Aircraft was distinguished in the darkness in the moonshine.  Up to 05.04 hours remain submerged, then surfaced and continued transit.
		08.00	DO 7822
			SE 3, Sea 2-3, 4/10, Vis. medium to good
		12.00	DO 7569	Day's run:  104 nm, 45 nm.
			ESE 2, Sea 1-2, 3/10, Vis. medium to good
		16.00	DO 7624
		20.00	DO 7391
			E 3, Sea 2, 2/10, Vis. good
		21.06.42
		00.00	DO 8141
		08.00	DO 5793
			ESE 2, Sea 1, 3/10, Vis. good
		12.00	DO 5822	Day's run:  182 nm.
		16.00	DO 5569
			E 1-2, Sea 1, 2/10, Vis. good
		20.00	DO 5616
		22.06.42
		00.00	DO 5391
			NbyE 1, Sea 0, blue sky, Vis. very good
		04.00	DO 6114
		08.00	DO 3782
		12.00	DO 3841	Day's run:  197 nm.
			NbyE 1-2, Sea 1, 1/10, Vis. very good
		16.00	DO 3821
		20.00	DO 3647

	Sun and Moon Data 20.06.42
	Sun and Moon Data 21.06.42
	Sun and Moon Data 22.06.42

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		23.06.42
		00.00	DO 3613
			NbyE 2, Sea 0, 3/10, Vis. good
		04.00	DO 3368
		08.15	DD 1117 [typo DD = DP]	Shadow in sight.  Steamer on course 295°, very fast.  I run at 2 x GF and do not get ahead.  Only with E-motor supplement do I come up slowly.  His target angle is 100°.  Because as it is getting bright I must shoot soon.  Because the target angle is broad and I still have enough torpedoes I decide on a four-fan.  09.48 hours shot from tubes I - IV, target speed 16 knots, target angle 110°, range 3000 meters,  target length 120 meters.  I have deliberately set 3000 meters, so that there is no possibility that the fan will pass.  The range amounted to about 1700 meters.  Nevertheless passed.  I can not maneuver ahead due the beginning of dawn.  Despite this I will however hold contact until it is completely bright, perhaps he will change his course at dawn and I can still engage him.  However he stubbornly holds his course and speed.  I can exactly identify him as a steamer of type TORRENS.
				I can not explain the miss.  Even if he had been 1 knot faster, which I now accept, or slower, my torpedoes would have to have hit.  A torpedo broke the surface after the shot several times.
				Because the steamer held his speed, at 11.30 hours pursuit broken off and transit continued.
		12.00	DD 8893	Day's run:  207 nm,  2 nm.
			NNE 1, Sea 1, 1/10, Vis. good
		16.00	DD 8945
		20.00	DD 8923
		24.06.42
		00.00	DD 8693
			N 1, Sea 0, 2/10, Vis. very good.
		04.00	DD 9441
		08.00	DD 9187
		12.00	DD 9162	Day's run:  174 nm,  2 nm.
			Wind 0, Sea 0, 1/10, Vis. good
		16.00	DD 6877
		20.00	DD 6854

	Sun and Moon Data 23.06.42
	Sun and Moon Data 24.06.42

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		25.06.42
		00.00	DD 6597
		04.00	DD 6566
		08.00	DD 6613
		10.45		Radio Message from B.d.U.:  Immediately report position, fuel and provisions inventory.
		12.00	DD 6359
			Wind 0, Sea 0, 5/10, Vis. good
		16.00	DE 4111	11.52 hours Radio Message sent:  6359, 11 cbm, enough provisions.  23 June, four-fan miss on "TERRENS type", course 295°, 17 knots.  All naval squares Dora Dora, high pressure weather.        Gelhaus.
				When the radio message was sent, I did not consider the provisions transfer correctly.  Possibly I can receive a little more fuel from the tanker and remain a bit longer in this area and still get rid of my torpedoes.  Therefore I sent a follow up Short Signal:
				Still have provisions up to the 15th of the next month.  Unfortunately the last character is not correct such that the signature comes out "U-124"
		20.00	DE 1776	Because I must correct the signature of the Short Signal, I want to inform B.d.U. at the same time, that I want to delay two days in DD.  I sent the following Radio Message:
			SW 1, Sea 0-1, 2/10, Vis. good
				Short Signal, provisions inventory from me.  Request still 2 days operations in DD.        Gelhaus.
				At 22.30 hours from B.d.U.:
				Agreed.
		26.06.42
		00.00	DD 6336
		03.45		Smoke cloud in sight.  A steamer, general course 70°, 16.5 knots.  Because the night is nearly as bright as day, however the sea is quite flat sea with heavy marine phosphorescence, I decide to wait to attack after moonset.  Steamer zig zags irregularly.
		08.00	DD 6356
		09.13		Shot from tube I and II.  Target speed 16.5 knots, target angle 79.5°, set range 1500 meters, aim point forward mast and after edge of the superstructure deck.

	Sun and Moon Data 25.06.42
	Sun and Moon Data 26.06.42

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		26.06.42
				After 4 minutes 30 seconds a hit between the super structure deck and after mast.  Ship settles aft deeper, however runs on at estimated speed of 13 - 14 knots.  I want to maneuver ahead and make another attack.  However it is slowly getting brighter.  The steamer sees me and angles itself a little bit closer and shoots at me at 10.00 hours with his stern cannon.  I give the alarm and dive.  After the hit the steamer transmits.  He is named "JAGERSFONTEIN" 10100 GRT.  The steamer proceeds at speed with wild zig zags and circles.  At one moment I am positioned favorably ahead of him to shoot however, with this duck pond the periscope is discovered by the numerous people standing on deck.  The steamer again turns away.  I am only surprised that he has not departed, but continues to drive in this area. Perhaps he wants to pick up the boats that were launched after the hit.  Therefore, I go back to the attack location. The steamer is approximately 15000 meters away, when I reach the location.  I surface.  A lot of cotton bales float there but no boats. He has loaded cotton.  Shortly after surfacing the steamer reports that he taking to the boats, and giving up the steamer.  It has also stopped and has settled astern a little bit deeper.  I go back and see that to port two lifeboats have gotten away.  I then dive and approach him submerged, at 14.59 hours from tube V a coup de grace to hit under the bridge.  High steam cloud, the ship settles deeper astern and sinks over the stern.  Surfaced.  4 lifeboats and a few rafts float about.  The lifeboats are heavily occupied also a number of women.  Approached close to the lifeboats.  Ran off.
		15.00	DE 1797
				Lifeboat 3 is equipped with a radio and transmits SOS.  According to the Radio Message there are 220 men in the boats.  SOS was heard by a Swiss and even by 2 Portuguese.  The Swiss takes them aboard during the night.
		12.00	DE 4132	Day's run:  223 nm,  5 nm.
		16.00	DE 1789
			Wind 0, Sea 0, 3/10, Vis. very good
		20.00	DE 1765	Proceeding to the supply point with "Wilamowitz".  Because at him the Group Endraß is supplying and I am already in the area, I decide to make the report of the sinking later.
			NbyW 1, Sea 0-1, 2/10, Vis. good

Sun and Moon Data 26.06.42

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		27.06.42
		00.00	DE 1811
			WNW 1, Sea 0-1, 3/10, Vis. very good
		04.00	DE 1557
		08.00	DE 1534
		12.00	DE 1269	Day's run:  171 nm,  10 nm.
			NbyE 3, Sea 1-2, 2/10, Vis. good
		16.00	DE 1312
			NNE 2, Sea 1, 3/10
		16.16		Wilamowitz in sight.  In tow from him another U-boat, which we later learn is "Uphoff", wait until Uphoff is finished, then supply.  43 cbm fuel oil and 150 liters of distilled water taken over.
		20.00	CC 8784
		28.06.42
		00.00	CC 8758
			EbyN 3, Sea 2-3, 3/10, Vis. good
		04.00	CC 8782
		08.00	CC 8791	Because I still need 200 liters of distilled water, at 10.00 hours again went alongside Wilamowitz and continued transfer.
		12.00	CC 8794	Day's run:  91 nm.
			ENE 3, Sea 2-3, 7/10, Vis. good
		12.55		Left Wilamowitz and continued return transit.
		12.55		Radio Message from B.d.U.:  Gelhaus report arriving at supply point.
		13.12		Crash dive - test dive.
		16.00	CC 8844
		20.00	CC 8836
			SbyW 3, Sea 2, 8/10
		20.48		Radio Message sent:  "Wilamowitz" Group Endraß and me supplied.  Tanker inventory own 90 cbm, 20 days' provisions, transfer 65 cbm, 25 days' provisions.
				26 June "JAGERSFONTEIN" Dora Emil, 1797, 75°, sunk.  2 + 2 torpedoes, CC 8836, naval squares
				For shipyard:  13 new battery cells.
				SbyW 2, 8/10, 1038 mb, steady, +29.
				Gelhaus.

	Sun and Moon Data 27.06.42
	Sun and Moon Data 28.06.42

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		29.06.42
		00.00	CC 8674
			SSW 1, Sea 1-2, 5/10, Vis. good
		04.00	CC 8659
		08.00	CC 9417
		12.00	CC 9421	Day's run:  189 nm,  1 nm.
			S 2-3, Sea 3, overcast, Vis. good
		16.00	CC 9196
		20.00	CC 2551
			NW 1, Sea 1, overcast, Vis. medium, rain showers
		30.06.42
		00.00	CC 9235
			SE 1, Sea 1, overcast, Vis. medium, rain
		04.00	CC 6978
		08.00	CC 6959
		12.00	CD 4741	Day's run:  181 nm.
			NbyE 2-3, Sea 2, overcast, Vis. medium, rain showers
		16.00	CD 4725
		20.00	CD 4577
			NE 3, Sea 2-3, 2/10, Vis. good
		01.07.42
		00.00	CD 4585
			NNE 3, Sea 2, 1/10, Vis. good
		04.00	CD 4644
		08.00	CD 4625
		12.00	CD 4633	Day's run:  172 nm.
			WSW 2-3, Sea 2, 3/10, Vis. good
		16.00	CD 5184
			W 3, Sea 2-3, 3/10, Vis. good
		20.00	CD 5167

	Sun and Moon Data 29.06.42
	Sun and Moon Data 30.06.42
	Sun and Moon Data 01.07.42

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		02.07.42
		00.00	CD 5242
			W 3, Sea 2, 5/10, Vis. good
		04.00	CD 5233
		08.00	CD 2985
		12.00	CD 2964	Day's run:  180 nm, 2 nm.
			WSW 2, Sea 2-3, 2/10, Vis. very good
		16.00	CD 3731
			WSW 4, Sea 3, 4/10, Vis. good
		20.00	CD 3736
		03.07.42
		00.00	CD 3821
		04.00	CD 3645
		08.00	CD 3637
		12.00	CE 1421	Day's run:  206 nm.
			WSW 3, Sea 2-3, 3/10, Vis. good
		16.00	CE 1196
		20.00	CE 1255
			NbyE 3, Sea 2-3, 8/10, Vis. good
		04.07.42
		00.00	CE 1239
		08.00	BD 8888
		12.00	BD 8897	Day's run:  192 nm.
			NW 3-4, Sea 3-4, 5/10, Vis. good
		16.00	BD 8958
		20.00	BD 8965
		05.07.42
		00.00	BD 9727
			NW 3-4, Sea 3, 5/10
		04.00	BD 9725

	Sun and Moon Data 02.07.42
	Sun and Moon Data 03.07.42
	Sun and Moon Data 04.07.42
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		05.07.42
		08.00	BD 9811
		12.00	BD 9585	Day's run:  163 nm,  5 nm.
			NNW 4, Sea 3-4, 5/10
		16.00	BD 9595
		06.07.42
		00.00	BD 9662
			NW 4, Sea 3-4, 7/10
		04.00	BE 7418
		08.00	BE 7423
			NNW 2-3, Sea 2, overcast, Vis. good
		12.00	BE 7277	Day's run:  169 nm.
			NbyE 3, Sea 2, overcast, Rain squalls
		16.00	BE 7285
		20.00	BE 7268
		07.07.42
		00.00	BE 7346
		04.00	BE 8126
		08.00	BE 8212
		12.00	BE 5889	Day's run:  209 nm,  1 nm.
			NW 2, Sea 2, 6/10, Vis. good
		16.00	BE 5975
			N 1, Sea 1, 2/10, Vis. good
		20.00	BE 5992
		08.07.42
		00.00	BE 6757
		04.00	BE 6853
		08.00	BE 6853
			SW 2, Sea 2, 8/10, Vis. medium to good
		10.35		Crash dive for aircraft, proceeded submerged.
		12.00	BE 6916	Day's run:  223 nm,  6 nm.

	Sun and Moon Data 05.07.42
	Sun and Moon Data 06.07.42
	Sun and Moon Data 07.07.42
	Sun and Moon Data 08.07.42

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		08.07.42
		16.00	BE 6925
		20.00	BE 6932
		23.30		Surfaced, proceeded on the surface.
		09.07.42
		00.00	BE 6936
			SW 2, Sea 1, 9/10, Vis. medium
		03.02		To starboard two white lights, apparently two fishermen.
		04.00	BF 4731
		05.59		Short Signal:  Positioned 48 hours off return harbor.
		06.06		Dived to proceed submerged.
		08.00	BF 4821
		12.00	BF 4822	Day's run:  88 nm,  54 nm.
		16.00	BF 4823
		20.00	BF 4831
		23.52		Surfaced to proceed on the surface.
		10.07.42
		00.00	BF 4833
			SSW 2-3, Sea 2-3, overcast, rain, Vis. bad
		03.30		Dived to proceed submerged.
		04.00	BF 4697
		08.00	BF 4698
		09.25		Surfaced to proceed on the surface.
		12.00	BF 5487	Day's run:  79 nm.
			NNW 4, Sea 3-4, 7/10, Vis. good

	Sun and Moon Data 08.07.42
	Sun and Moon Data 09.07.42
	Sun and Moon Data 10.07.42

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		10.07.42
		12.16		Crash dive for aircraft.
				Surfaced, proceeded on the surface.
		16.00	BF 5548
			NbyW 6-7, Sea 4-5
		17.05		Dived to proceed submerged.
		11.07.42
		01.00		Surfaced to proceed on the surface.
		15.30		To Point L 2.
		15.45		Taken in convoy and started for Lorient.
		17.35		Made fast Lorient.

	Sun and Moon Data 10.07.42
	Sun and Moon Data 11.07.42