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'''U-A''' was the official call-sign of one of fourteen [[U-Boats]] that made up the [[Foreign U-Boats]] of the [[Nazi German]] [[Kriegsmarine]] during [[World War II]]. The Foreign U-Boats were fashioned from captured [[submarines]] of other countries, modified, and then deployed with German crews to function as a normal U-Boat. U-A itself was formerly a [[Turkey|Turkish]] boat. U-A was commissioned on April 30th, [[1939]] under the initial command of Hans Cohausz, and later Hans Eckerman. |
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== Dr. George W. Crane == |
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U-A was attacked on March 8th, [[1941]], by the ''[[HMS Wolverine (D78)|HMS Wolverine]]'', but survived. During its service, it sank 7 allied ships, including the [[British military|British]] 13,950 ton HMS ''Andania''. Only 9 ships in total were destroyed by the Foreign U-Boat corps, U-A destroying 7 of those while damaging another 3. It was decommissioned and scuttled on 3 May 1945, as the war was drawing to a close. |
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Dr. George W. Crane (b. 1901 d. July 17, 1995) was a self-described "overeducated farmer," who dispensed advice to the lovelorn and old-fashioned horse sense to everybody else through a series of syndicated newspaper columns for 60 years. |
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== Sources == |
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[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE1D8153EF93AA25754C0A963958260 1995 Obituary, New York Times] |
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U-A was the official call-sign of one of fourteen U-Boats that made up the Foreign U-Boats of the Nazi German Kriegsmarine during World War II. The Foreign U-Boats were fashioned from captured submarines of other countries, modified, and then deployed with German crews to function as a normal U-Boat. U-A itself was formerly a Turkish boat. U-A was commissioned on April 30th, 1939 under the initial command of Hans Cohausz, and later Hans Eckerman.
U-A was attacked on March 8th, 1941, by the HMS Wolverine, but survived. During its service, it sank 7 allied ships, including the British 13,950 ton HMS Andania. Only 9 ships in total were destroyed by the Foreign U-Boat corps, U-A destroying 7 of those while damaging another 3. It was decommissioned and scuttled on 3 May 1945, as the war was drawing to a close.
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