research is fun, research is fun, keep telling yourselves that gents,,,,,,,,,,,

dom thanks for adding your cards to this thread.

skip you may have hit right on it. On most occassions the Vorpostenboots are not large ships/boats as they have to traverse narrow water ways and get in close to the shore line(s). from J. Rohwers comprehensive book and seite he states that 3 boots were sunk, 2 on the 18th and the Notre on the following eve in the Ems by RAF a/c, so was it in harbor location and plastered to pieces by bombs or did it run over aerial mines (which I think is the case here as it was on ops). all 3 boots were from the 12th Flottille.

have secured another KM death card I will post soon, the chap was on a mineing mission and KIA in the Arctic waters on 1 Februar 1943. Either one of you have infos on this as I seem to be lacking details.

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