Author:Axel Urbanke
Language(s):English & German text
Format:Soft cover
Dimensions:8" x 11"
Pages:54 pages
Photos:56 B+W photos, 3 in color, 2 colored conning tower sideviews, 1 colored conning tower frontview, 1 colored boat-sideview, 2 colored emblems, 1 colored document, reader's forum
Maps:2 colored maps
Publisher:Luftfahrt Verlag, Germany
ISBN:978-3-941437-42-5
Item No. LF UB-018
U-Boot im Focus discusses exclusively the missions of German U-Boots during the Second World War. It is the first regularly published U-Boot magazine which showcases never before seen wartime photos. Each edition has detailed stories about unknown or not so well known subjects on U-Boats, emblems/paintings, camouflage, sub commanders, etc.
Featured in this issue:
- Photos with a story: In Secret Action for General Franco
- German Submarines in the Spanish Civil War
- Unknown Emblems: This is what U-629’s emblem actually looked like
- Commanders: Kptlt. Herbert Schultze (U-48)
- Conning Towers: U-Boats against the Invasion – Hopeless Surface Operation
- Operations by U-766 as Part of the Landwirt Group from June to August 1944
- Documents: Commemorative Document of Department III of the Brest Naval Shipyard
- Scenery: “Chatting” from Boat to Boat
- Background: “Alberich” – The German U-Boats’ Cap of Invisibility
- Cap Badges: From “Glückauf” to “Bobby the Elephant” (U-141, U-667, U-471), as well as photos of U-100, U-73, U-204, U-3527 und U-3528