NEW GERMAN U-BOAT OFFENSIVE
(Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, December 18. Germany’s last desperate U-boat offensive with a new type of submarine already known to the Royal Navy as a “snorter,” is imminent, says the naval correspondent of The Daily Express. The new U-boat headquarters are subterranean chambers blasted under the mountains near Bergen, according to the Swedish Navy calender, published in Stockholm. The main base from which the U-boats are about to develop the offensive has nine inlets, each with room for three submarines. This main chamber was hewn and blasted out of the mountains by more than 1000 workers toiling the last three or four years. Twenty-foot steel reinforced concrete shelters have been erected over others lacking natural cover. Germany, according to a Swedish naval estimate, still has 400 U-boats left.
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Southland Times, Issue 25550, 19 December 1944, Page 5
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