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Alexander Gelhaar, U-45 began her second and final war patrol. On 14 October, the U-boat sighted and attacked convoy KJF-3 about 230 nautical miles (430 km; 260 mi) southwest of Ireland. This attack yielded the only two successes by U-45, the 9,205 ton British freighter Lochavon and the 10,108 French merchant ship Bretagne.
The Type VII was based on earlier German submarine designs going back to the World War I Type UB III and especially the cancelled Type UG. The type UG was designed through the Dutch dummy company NV Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw Den Haag (I.v.S) to circumvent the limitations of the Treaty of Versailles, and was built by foreign shipyards.
U-45 may refer to one of the following German submarines: SM U-45, was a Type U 43 submarine launched in 1915 and that served in the First World War until sunk on 12 September 1917 During the First World War, Germany also had these submarines with similar names: SM UB-45, a Type UB II submarine launched in 1916 and sunk on 6 November 1916
Prague 8 is a municipal district (městská část) in Prague, Czech Republic. The administrative district ( správní obvod ) of the same name consists of municipal districts Prague 8, Březiněves , Ďáblice and Dolní Chabry .
Deutsche Bundesbahn express locomotives and first class cars 1962–1971 RAL 5014: ... 8: 21: 44 — RAL 1036: Pearl gold ... 45: 34: 31: 29
The German submarine U-8 was a Type IIB U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, based at Kiel during World War II. It was one of the smaller versions, and was first launched on 16 July 1935. Its first commander was Harald Grosse. U-8 would have 18 commanders over the course of its service, the last being Jürgen Kriegshammer.
V-8-H took part in these trials and emerged as the clear victor of its category combined with the army's need for a medium tank. The Czechoslovak army, seeing Germany's new Panzer III vehicles, felt that the contemporary light tanks could not stand up to it. A competition was announced for the new Czechoslovak army medium tank and V-8-H took part.
The kurzer 8 cm Granatwerfer 42 (kz 8 cm GrW 42) was a mortar used by Germany during World War II. It was developed as a lightened version of the standard German 8 cm GrW 34 medium mortar with a shorter barrel for use by paratroopers, but replaced the ineffective 5 cm leGrW 36 as that weapon's shortcomings became apparent.