APPENDIX 4

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1. All in Group Streitaxt, which encountered and attacked convoy Sierra Leone 125. Of these, only U-134 proceeded to Freetown as planned.

2. Hirsacker relieved, tried for cowardice, found guilty, executed 4/24/43.

3. Group Seehund (GS), which sailed to the South Atlantic, Cape Town, and the Indian Ocean.

4. Transferred the political activist Subhas Chandra Bose, his aide, and cargo to the Japanese submarine 1-29, and received cargo in return. Later shot down a Hampden bomber.

5. Hit the American Liberty ship Flora MacDonald, which beached, a total loss.

6. Arrived at the island of Penang, Malaya, to establish a German U-boat base.

7. Arrived in Penang. Designated “Marco Polo I,” U-511 was a gift from Hitler to Japan. She arrived in Japan on 9/16/43 and was redesignated RO-500.

8. The Cappellini, Giuliani, and Torelli were seized by the Japanese on 9/8/43, when Italy capitulated. Returned to Germany on about December 1943, redesignated U-IT23, U-IT24, U-IT25. In February 1944, these three ex-Italian boats set off from Penang to France with cargoes. None made it. The surviving two, U-IT24 (ex-Cappellini) and U-IT25 (ex-Torelli), were re-seized by the Japanese on 5/8/45, when Germany capitulated and were redesignated 1-503 and 1-504, respectively.

9. Embarked “coastal troops” (Küstentruppe) of the Brandenburg Division, lost with the entire crew in the sinking.

10. Refueled Monsun boats and returned to France.

11. Diverted from Monsun to be a refueler.

12. Was to mine Lagos, but was sunk before the mission was carried out. Possibly shot down an aircraft in Biscay.

13. Laid eight TMC mines at Takoradi on 10/31. After returning, the boat retired to the Baltic.

14. Returned three British POWs to France.

15. Includes British sloop Chanticleer, towed to port but not repaired.

16. Rescued thirty-four German survivors of torpedo boat T-25 and returned to France.

17. Includes Greek freighter Peleus, whose survivors Eck was accused of shooting in the water.

18. En route from Penang to France, rescued 135 survivors of the German tanker Brake and returned to Jakarta, Java.

19. Wintermeyer went on to other duty because of his inability to handle personnel.

20. Diverted from the Americas to be a provisional refueler; thereafter patrolled to Freetown.

21. Another gift from Hitler to Japan (“Marco Polo II”), redesignated RO-501. She sailed from Kiel with a German skipper and a Japanese crew, all killed in the sinking.

22. Patrolled from Penang to the Indian Ocean and returned to Penang.

23. Seized by the Japanese, redesignated 1-502.

24. Seized by the Japanese, redesignated 1-506.

25. Seized by the Japanese, redesignated 1-505.

26. Seized by the Japanese, redesignated 1-501.