ANSWERS

MARC COHEN (166-A/LIFE-1987) writes: “For MAJOR MICHAEL STACK (4259-1995); U-Boats generally carried, in probably small amounts, P-08 (Lugers), 7.65mm M-34 Mauser pistols, M-35 pistols, and K98K 7.92mm rifles. There were probably only half a dozen rifles and pistols issued to a U-Boat and it is also pretty likely that many captured weapons from occupied countries that were re-issued ended up on U-Boats. Although the P-38 pistols were not generally known to be issued to U-Boats, I own one that was documented to come off U-1064 that surrendered in Trondheim, Norway at the end of the war.”

QUESTIONS

MAJOR LOU MARI (536-1988) would like information about the ‘General’s Plot’ to kill President Franklin Delano Roosevelt prior to the outbreak of World War II.

BOBBY KIRKLAND (3286-1993) wants to know if there are any modern day computer programs that can duplicate the techniques of the ENIGMA Machine.

PETER GALLO (4455-1995) wants to know if veterans of USS GUNNEL have reunions and if so, where to get this information.

ROGER BESAW (4229-1995) asks:

• What are good sources to see all the equipment necessary to perform a topside handling evolution; technical drawings?
• Was it possible to perform topside reloading forward and stern at the same time?
• Could more than one torpedo be reloaded simultaneously in the same compartment?

JOE McCARTHY (3853-1994) asks - Were any major belligerents less able to set their torpedoes for courses other than ‘straight from the tubes’? Were any more able?

PAUL CHANDLER (4221-1995) is trying to find a shipwreck map of the New Jersey coast which would list the exact site a barge named the MARYLAND sank off Corsin’s Inlet in 1911.

SHARKHUNTERS HQ would like to track down a map (or maps) showing the military bases in Florida during the War years. Army bases; Army Air Corps fields; Naval bases; Naval airfields, bombing ranges - any thing at all where there was a US military facility of any kind. We could use histories of such facilities as well as maps and charts. Your help would be most welcome.

Do YOU have questions? Send them here and we’ll put them in this column and get your answers for you.

TOKYO ROSE, AXIS ANNIE COMMANDER NORDEN?

Anyone interested in the history of World War II knows the name TOKYO ROSE. She was the woman who broadcast the Japanese propaganda to American forces. AXIS ANNIE did the same for the Germans in Europe - but who was COMMANDER NORDEN?

Commander Norden (# 118)
Commander Norden (# 119)