10 YEARS AGO in our KTB

In KTB #10 we reported more information on the U-Boats that were reported to be headed for Japan in the closing days of the War, carrying high-tech information - and URANIUM for the Japanese atomic bomb. ROBERT WILCOX (25-1984) felt that, in addition to U-234, other boats, including U-1224, U-1062 and U-863, might also have carried such cargoes.

...More information on the U-Boats reported to be headed for Japan. in the closing days of the War, carrying high-tech info -- and Uranium for the Japanese Atomic Bomb...

We asked for information about the MARINE SONDERDIENST AUSLANDS and got a lot of different answers. JAK MALLMANN SHOWELL (73 -1984) and JIM VIZIGIAN (29-1984) both quickly confirmed that U-234 did indeed have a cargo of 560 kilos of uranium on board. We showed the SHELL OIL emblem on the conning tower of U- 505 and asked who was really fighting whom. We reported that the rumor that Adolf Hitler offered a huge reward to the U-Boat Skipper who could sink either of the Queens (the liners QUEEN MARY or QUEEN ELIZABETH) was just that - a rumor without fact.

KTB #10 was only 4 pages long and done on an old typewriter. The entire KTB #10 would have required less than one page in today's today's 32 page, computer-set KTB Magazine.

5 YEARS AGO in our KTB

In KTB #56, there were more photos of the 'LOST BUNKER' in Germany were three TYPE XXI boats are still entombed; there was a little about Heinz Eck; we announced our SHARKHUNTERS THIRD ANNUAL CONVENTION plans (Charleston SC); we asked why U-864 had so many officers on board (there were ten officers, two were from a secret group and some were from Penemunde, the rocket development base); we announced our first ever BOARD OF ADVISORS; we reported that U-534 had unloaded all her torpedoes and had put SOMETHING on board before departing Kiel for Norway - and we reported that a young German doctor was diving this wreck and was killed.

KTB #56 was just twelve pages long, and we thought we could never find enough information to keep twelve pages filled. Now we do not have the space in our 32 pages for everything that should be published, and with the computer typesetting, the 12 pages of KTB #56 would take only 4 pages of this KTB #104 which means there is EIGHT TIMES MORE information in our KTB Magazine today than there was just five years ago.