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Try http://www.luftwaffe.cz/frey.html
It tells a little.
Good luck in your search.

Andre, based on the additional information I would agree with your analysis that the explosions were from the bombs. As I said earlier, we really don't know what type of ordnance was. It would be very difficult, I would think, to know the difference in the sound... depth bomb or other. I have heard ...

Andre, I can respond to this as a retired Navy Torpedoman, familiar with ordnance. :[] Assuming the fuse was for armour piercing, it probably would not explode on contact with the surface or bottom nor would it likely detonate from sea pressure. In very deep water it could crush but if it did explod...

I have shown this to a number of people, German and other various 'experts'. The inscription says "For Service" but no one new for what. Speculation is that it is a religous artifact from the period between 1918 and 1933. No one thought it was issued by any German government or during the ...

Good for you Captain! I am still looking for a Blackman veteran.
Hope you'll share with an old Chief.

TMC/SS

This is Hans Thieleman's book (Memoirs of a Luftwaffe Nachrichten Veteran) and at one time a copy was once offerred here. I've done library, ebay, etc searches without success.

In my research I have discovered one cardinal rule, THERE IS NO CARDINAL RULE! Things were done to meet the situation at hand. In the spring of 1940 when the German forces were raceing across Europe, technical support moved by whatever means necessary to keep up with the rapid advance. Usually, the ...

The British would have won.

I wonder, who was due the credit for your numbers, the French or the British air forces in France.

It was not the Poles, Germans or any other entire nationality of people who shot pilots or others dangling from parachutes. It was individuals, of ALL nations, that committed atrosities or acts reprehensible to us today. Some were ordered either in writing or verbally while others were on the spot d...

Thanks to the suggestions of some of you, I have finally found a copy of Harald Vogt's excellent book on the "Black Men" of the Luftwaffe- the men who kept the planes flying, who loaded the bombs and the guns. Through the Interlibrary Loan System I got a copy from Harvard University Librar...

No Tiornu, I'm thinking of hedgehog, the system I studied some 30 odd years ago when I was a budding Torpedoman. :wink: I will wiave to your spigot mortar desciption. I used the word 'rocket' very loosely. The propelling charge did no more than throw the bomb in the air where it would hopefully not ...

The hedgehog was a rocket propelled depth bomb with a contact fuze and it carried a rather small but effective charge. Launched from beds either fore or aft on asw vessels they created a pattern designed to "detect" subs. If one went off it meant a sub had been hit and then the ship would ...

Meals varied as to quality with time spent at sea. Hot meals were mostly boiled veggies and meat, often in same pot which was carried to "mess" and served. There was no mess hall for crew, they ate where they slept. Cold meals, when conditions required, could be simply meat and bread or br...

Germany could have completed a successful carrier but the fact is Adolf lost interest in capital ships after the loss of ships like the Bismark and diverted resources to subs. Had he given the Navy until 45 to start war as he stated in the 30's they would have had a naval air arm afloat. By then the...

The article in the September 1987 edition of AIRPOWER magazine is titled "The BLACK MEN of Damiler-Benz & BMW Demonology!" by Christian G. Sturm. It is a very good summary of Feldwebel (Mechanic) Helmut Bartel's experiences with Bf 109s and FW 190s in all major areas of operation from ...