Представляю вашему вниманию статью из свежайшего номера журнала "Вторая Мировая война". "The tide turned in the Battle of the Atlantic long before the end of World War II, but that didn't stop the Kriegsmarine from dispatching hundreds of U-boats in 1944 and 1945 on doomed, last-ditch missions to disrupt Allied shipping. By the war's end, of the 860 U-boats to see frontline service during the war, more than three in four failed to return--many of them disappearing without a trace in the war's final months. Historians have spent decades trying to tie up these lingering loose ends, poring over naval records and diving on wrecks in an effort to identify the final resting places of the dozens of U-boats that are still missing. This summer, they were able to declare a small victory, when an American marine exploration company issued a final report on a 2008 survey of the English Channel that identified the wrecks of five previously unidentified German submarines--some of them far from where naval records said they had last been seen. Using a submersible armed with a high-powered underwater camera, Odyssey Marine Exploration, based in Tampa, Florida, found the five U-boats clustered around the coast of Cornwall (see map), where they seem to have fallen prey to the deadly combination of minefields and depth charges that protected Allied convoys en route to ports across Europe. After examining unique features like the subs' gun placements and bow shapes, Axel Niestlé, a German U-boat expert who accompanied the expedition, was able to determine the identities of all five submarines, including the wrecks of the U-325 and U-650, two U-boats historians had been unable to find any information about since they went missing a few months before the war ended. Niestlé believes a further search in the area will reveal the identities and exact locations of another dozen U-boats thought to be nearby. "This is only a small piece of information we can add to the whole picture of the war," Niestlé told World War II. "But it's still important to find these answers. On each of these boats were 50 crewmen, and for their relatives, this closes the book. Now, for the first time, there is a way to remember them--to know what happened". P.S. На второй иллюстрации - экипаж U-400 в марте 1944 года.
Стало быть герр Аксель пересмотрел свои выводы от 2007 года. То что изначально считали U 400, оказалось U 1021. И наоборот - то что изначально считали U 400, оказалось U 1021. U-400 2007 - 50°39,9’n / 05°05’w 2010 - 50°33,16’n / 05°11.37’w U-1021 2007 - 50.33.3N / 05.11.6W 2010 - 50.39.48N / 05.05.04W Интересно, что тогда за лодку нашел Иннес Маккарти, которую Нистле посчитал за U 325 в 2007. Благодарю, ув. Transpspeer. Но данная заметка поставила больше вопросов, чем дала ответов.
