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Singapore. U 181 was based in Panang. That happened sometime after Kapitan zur See Kurt Freiwald took over command of U 181 from Kapitanleutnant Wolfgang Luth.

Anyway--if some of my detail in this answer is wrong--I got the correct country.

 

Oh and Kapitan zur See Wilhelm Dommes was in command--or in the later stages of the war. I have a few nice pics of him decorating my friend--Karl Kaiser with the German Cross in Gold. In this particular picture--Kapitan Freiwald is in the background.

 

Carl,

Penang and U-181 are correct.Your turn to ask!!



For more info read the following:

http://uboat.net/ops/monsun3.htm

 

Thank you my friend. Let us see...............

Who was the only Waffen SS officer of the rank of General that transferred back to the Army as a Generalleutnant? And why?

The why answer can be vague as I dont know the specifics on it--but I need this mans name and his FULL Waffen SS rank at the time of his transfer.

PS--I gave a hint above as to his rank at the time of transferr.

[ 11. February 2003, 01:36 PM: Message edited by: C.Evans ]

 

At least I got the name and rank:

http://www.geocities.com/~orion47/SS-POLIZEI/SS-Gruf_O-Z.html

SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS
SAUBERZWEIG, Karl Gustav

Heer Promotions:
Gen.Lt.: Jan. 1945, Returned to Heer
General z.b.V. Heeresgruppe H: Mar. 1945 - May 1945

On reasons why he returned to Heer I really don´t know for sure but as far as I could follow him, he was with IX SS Mountain Corps since autumn 1944 and this corps ended in the Budapest trap (?). Maybe they wanted him for other assignments as the foreign corps were finished...??

 

Great guess Kai--good enough and the football is now yours.

As for reasons why he transferred back to the Heer all I have is that he "had a few differances" with Himmler. They rarely agreed on anything--during Karls brief career in Der Waffen SS.

 

Also--with the link you provided here--it will help me out with info on certain W-SS Sr Offz--so I MIGHT be able to continue with their bios--somewhat--in the near future.

 

What is the story of U-124 having an Edelweiss emblem on it??

 

The emblem of U-124, the Edelweiss, was inspired by the loss of U-64 in April, 1940.
The crew of the U-64 were saved from the Norwegian waters by German mountain troops using that emblem.
In honour of this act, the ex-crew of the U-64 who made up the majority of the U-124 adopted the emblem of their rescuers.
The U-124 sank a total of 48 allied ships, before being sunk with the loss with all hands, in April 1943 by the RN escorts HMS Stonecrop and the sloop HMS Black Swan

[ 13. February 2003, 06:11 AM: Message edited by: redcoat ]

 

Oops..that was fast! But anyway, totally correct and A brilliant answer! Over to you, Redcoat!!

 

Might I add that I learnt that from Clay Blair's great book, 'Hitler's U-Boat War-Part 1"

 

Let have another naval one
a ship was given the name USS Robin, for a short period during WW2, by what name was she normally known ?

 

was it the ill-fated USS Greer?

 

Sorry Panzerknacker, it wasn't

 

USS Robin?

 

Yes A large and very famous warship

 

I remembered that because the names are 2 birds!!!

 

OK-my question.

In the Vietnam War, what symbolised an NVA officer's rank in the field?

 

OK-my question.

In the Vietnam War, what symbolised an NVA officer's rank in the field?

 

Sorry Panzerknacker
There appears to be some confusion.
I though you, were asking whether I had got the name right.
I was just saying that I had got the name right, and that the ship involved is a large and famous one.
The answer is not USS Robin,
Sorry about this