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1.
The ‘schnorchel’ had first been fitted in a submarine
by the Dutch. It was a ventilating tube that allowed the diesel
engines to be used at periscope depth.
2. The Germans had informed the Japanese of their intentions and
we had decrypted the Naval Attaché’s signals back
to Tokyo.
3. They also had ‘legs’ which enabled them to sit under
a ship’s bottom like an inverted table so that divers could
work and place the charges.
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4. British
U class ex-Vortex.
5. Tapir
intended to fire a full salvo of eight torpedoes but two tubes
misfired, one going off later.
6. In 1945, Bomber Command laid 4582 mines, which sank 86 ships
of 164,330 tons in the Baltic, and damaged another 35. They also
sank four U-boats and damaged three others.
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