Did You Know...

Fresh food supplies lasted only two weeks on U-Boats? Every thing else had to come out of cans or containers. Fresh water was taken along from the base. Limited distilled water was only produced for the batteries.

There was no refrigerator or even a water cooler on board?

U-Boats did not have air conditioners or even heaters on board? Temperatures inside the boat reached 140 degrees in the tropics, whereas in the Atlantic or in the Arctic the temperatures were equal to the temperature of the sea.

Little Know Facts:

This quiz is for your enjoyment only and meant to improve your knowledge of submarine and naval history. Please DO NOT call or write here with the answers, they will be in KTB #143 next month.

176. Operation AVALANCHE had Salerno as its target.

177.USS NIBLACK was the first American warship to launch an attack against a German ship. On 10 April 1941 the NIBLACK had complete rescue operations of a Dutch ship and dropped depth charges on what it thought was a German U-boat. Some months later, it was NIBLACK that rescued what was left of the crew of USS REUBEN JAMES after she was sunk on the night of 31 October 1941 by U-552 under ERICH TOPP (118-LIFE- 1985); it was actually SIEGFRIED KOITSCHKA (225- 1986) who was the officer who fired the torpedoes. CARL JEPPESON (4547-1995) is quite happy that U-552 did not fire on NIBLACK while that ships was picking up the guys from the old 'RUBE' because his father was aboard NIBLACK and if she had gone down, CARL would never have been bom. SHARKHUNTERS Members are interwoven throughout history.

178.The worst defeat suffered by the Allies in World War TT was the Battle of the Java Sea in which ten ships (US, British and Dutch) were sunk by the Japanese.

179.The first American non-military ship sunk was the CITY OF RAYVILLE, which struck a mine in the Bass Strait off Cape Otway, Australia on 8 November 1940.

180.The only time the battleship TIRPITZ fired her guns at a city was at Spitzbergen, Norway September 1943.

For KTB #143 next month, do you know.....

Who was responsible for creating the operational plans for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?

What was the first American flagged ship captured after war began in Europe?

Can you name all the ships involved in the battle between BISMARCK and HMS HOOD?

After BISMARCK sank HMS HOOD and disappeared into the fog for many days, who actually discovered her and sent the message to England with her location? This one might surprise you.

What was the first American ship attacked by Germany?

Remember - do not send your answers here. These answers will be in KTB #143 next month. This is just to increase your knowledge.