1 December 1944
1. Blockade-running by submarines
a. Blockade-running between German europe and the Far East, which began in 1941, at first was carried on exclusively by erchgat vessels operated by the Germans. The venture enjoyed considerable initial success, but in the 1942-43 season (September 1942-March 1943) the losses to the blockade-running fleet were so severe that by January of this year the Germans decided to discontinue the use of surface vessels. A summary of the record of the surface blockade-runners is annexed as TAB A.
b. So far as is known, the first submariune to run the blockade made the voyage in the middle of 1942. However, it was not until well into 1943 that the Axis attempted to use submarines regularly as blockade-running. In the spring of 1943 the German Navy converted seven large Italian submarines to cargo=carriers for the purpose of running the blockade. In addition to the converted Italian craft, at least three Japanese and a considerable number of German operational submarines have been used to carry cargo and passengers to and from the Far East.
c. It is believed that up to November of thia yearm 35 submarines departed from Europe for the Far
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East (see TAB B). During the same period at least 11 submarines are believed to have left Far Eastern ports for Europe (see TAB C). A summary of the record of blockade-running by submarine in both directions is as follows:
1942 | ||||
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Diretion of Voyage |
Voyages | Losses | SuccessfulEn route | 11 Nov 44 |
Far East to Europe | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Europe to Far East | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
2 | 1 | 1 | ||
1943 | ||||
Far East to Europe | 5 | 1 | 4 | |
Europe to Far East | 16 | * 3 | 13 | |
21 | 4 | 17 | ||
1944 (To 11 Nov) | ||||
Far East to Europe | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Europe to Far East | 18 | 10 | †7 | 1 |
23 | 12 | 8 | 3 |
d. To date, the submarines employed as bkockade-runners have ranged from German operational craft of 740 tons to cargo-carriers of approximately 2,200 tons. The cargoes have varied in size from approximately 80 tons to a maximum of about 300 tons. The total volume of goods carried in both directions in 26 successfrul voyages has been less than
*Includes the Italian Cagni which surrendered at Durban in September 1943.
†Includes the I-29, which arrived safely in July at Singapore, where her passengers disembarked, but was later sunk with the loss of her cargo while en route to Japan.
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the cargo which could be carried on one of the surface blockade-runners formerly used.
e. Although the sailings of surface blockade-runners occurred principally in the autumn and winter months, so as to enable the vessels to negotiate the Bay of Biscay area when short days and weather conditions hamper observation, submarines are used at all seasons of the year. Surface blockade-runners used French ports exclusively; although most of the blockade-ruinning submarines have departred from, or arrived at, Biscay portrs, at least seen of them have used German and Norwegian ports.
f. Submarine voyages between Europe and the Far East require a minimum of from two to three months. Frequently, however, more time is consumed, since certain of the German submarines, carrying small cargoes, engaged in operations in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans while en route.*
g. At least 10 German submariunes are believed to be east of Capetown (as of 11 Nov 44), either engaged in operations or making preprations for the return trip. A list of those German submarines follows:
*Some of the German submarines have also engaged in operations in the Far East between vouages.
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UIT-24 (ex-Cappellini)
UIT025 (ex-Torelli)
U0183
U-196
U-510
U-532
U-537
U-843
U-861
U-862
2. Cargoes from Europe to the Far East:
a. After the Germans suspended blockade-running by surface vessels in January 1944, the Japanese decided to sell, lease or otherwise return to the Germans and Italians such items as rolling mill equipment, presses, machine tools, prototypes of large guns, samples of aircraft, etc., which they wanted but which could not be shipped by submarine. The principal goods retained for shipment for the Far East included the folling:
German radar units and other electronic equipment
Bombsights
Vacuum tubes
Optical glass
Steel balls
ercury
Machine gun ammunition
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Prototypes of communications equipment
High grade aluminum
Special alloy steel for aircraft motors
Chemicals and drugs
Platinum
Industrial diamonds
Plans and drawings for weapons, aircraft, etc.
b. TAB D lists the items known to have been shipped by submarine from Europe to the Far East in the period 1942-44. Other goods wanted by the Japanese, but known to have been destroyed at Lorient by the Germans last summer because of the speed of the Allied advance, are lsited in TAB E. TAB F contains a list of products not known to have been shipped, but believed to have been available somewhere in Europe for shipment to the Far East before the last known departure.
c. In addition to the cargoes carried to the Far East, a number of German and Japanese engineers, technical experts and diplomatic officials have traveled on blockade-running submarines as passengers. The names of such passengers are listed in TAB G.
3. Cargoes from the Far East to Europe:
a. As indicated above, so far as is known there have been but six successful voyages of blockade-running submarines from the Far East in the period from 1942 to November 1944. Little information is available concerning
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the cargoes those vessels actually carried. However, it is known that from the inauguration of Axis blockade-running in 1941, the Germans have made great efforts to get such Far Eastern products as rubber, tungsten, tin, molybdenum, quinine and opium, and that the cargoes carried by submarines have actually included those items.During the past year the Germans have been particularly anxious to get tungsten, molybdenum and tin, and have used operational submarines returning to Europe to carry those commodities. Since the Germans need large quantities of the products they have tried to get from the Far East, the small amounts of such products that they could have received by submarines have probably been of little assistance to them. Further information about items transported from the Far East is to be found in TAB H.
b. The Japanese have taken advantage of submarine transportation to send personnel to Europe, principally (i) diplomatic offices and (ii) technicians to study the latest German developments in scientific fields. TAB I gives a list of persons known to have been carried as passengers on submarines from the Far East.
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1941-42 Season (July 1941-Mar 1942) | ||||
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Direction of Voyage |
Voyages Attempted |
Losses (Sunk, Scuttled or Captured) |
Damanged and returned to port |
Successful |
Far East to Europe | 14 | 2 | 12 | |
Europe to Far East | 5 | 0 | 5 | |
19 | 2 | 17 | ||
1942-43 Season (Sept 1941-Mar 1943) | ||||
Far East to Europe | 11 | 7 | 0 | 4 |
Europe to Far East | 17 | 4 | 3 | 10* |
28 | 11 | 3 | 14 | |
1943-44 Season (Sept or Oct 1943-Jan 1944) | ||||
Far East to Europe | 5 | 4 | 1† | |
Europe to Far East | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
5 | 4 | 1 |
*One o the vessels which reached the Far East, a tanker, was destroyed by explosion after its arrival.
†This vessel was damaged by a mine near the Gironde estuary and part of its cargo was destroyed.
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Vessel | Left Europe | Remarks | |
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1942 | |||
1. | I-30 | Aug/Sept, Bay of Biscay | Sunk Singapore, mid-Oct. |
1943 | |||
2. | U-180 | 9 Feb, Kiel | Rendezvoused with Japanese submarine in Indian Ocean in Apr. |
3. | U-178 | 28 Mar | Arrived Sabang or Panang Aug. |
4. | U-511 (Satsuki #1) |
Apr/May, Lorient | Arrive Penang July/Aug. |
5. | Tazzoli | May, Bordeaux | Sunk in Bay of Biscay. |
6. | Guiliani (UIT-23) |
May, Bordeaux | Arrived Sabang late July, Singapore, Aug. |
7. | Cappelini (UIT-24) |
May, Bordeaux | Arrived Sabang 9 July, Singapore, Aug or Sept. |
8. | Torelli (UIT-24) |
June | Arrived Sabang Aug, Singapore, late Aug. |
9. | Barbarigo | 16 June | Sunk en route |
10. | Cagni | 30 June | Surrendered, Durban 20 Sept. |
11. | U-188 | June/July | Arrived Penang late Oct. |
12. | U-532 | June/July | Arrived Penang late Oct. |
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Vessel | Left Europe | Remarks | |
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13. | U-183 | June/July | Arrived Penang late Oct. |
14. | U-168 | June/July | Arrived Penang 10 Nov, sunk in Java Sea, 6 Oct 44. |
15. | I-8 | 6 Oct | Arrived Penang early Dec. |
16. | U-510 | 3 Nov, Lorient | Arrived Penang 5 Apr after operations in Indian Ocean. |
17. | U-1052 | Dec, Kiel | Arrived Penang 18/19 Apr. |
1944 | |||
18. | Attilio Bagnolini (UIT-22) |
24 Jan | Sunk 11 Mar. |
19. | U-843 | Feb, from a French port | Arrived Batavia before 13 June after operations in Indian Ocean. |
20. | U-537 | Early Msr, from a French port | Arrived Batavia 2 Aug after operations in Indian Ocean. |
21. | U-181 | 10-15 Mr, from a French port | Arrived Penang 8 Aug after operations in Indian Ocean. |
22. | U-196 | 10-15 Mar, from a French port | Arrived Penang 10 Aug after operations in Indian Ocean. |
23. | U-1224 (Satsuki #2) |
30 Mar, Kiel | Presumed sunk some time after 11 May. |
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Vessel | Left Europe | Remarks | |
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24. | U-859 | 7-10 Apr, from a Norwegian port | Sunk 23 Sept off Penange before unloading her cargo, after operations in Indian Ocean. |
25. | U-860 | About 15 Apr | Sunk en route. |
26. | I-29 | 16 Apr, Lorient | Arrived Singapore 14 July, sunk 26 July en route to Japan. |
27. | U-198 | 20 Apr, from a French port | Believed sunk after operations in Indian Ocean. |
28. | U-861 | 23-26 Apr, from a Norwegian port | Arrived Penange Sept after operations. |
29. | U-490 | About 7 May | Sunk en route. |
30. | U-862 | 1 June, from a Norwegian port | Arrived Penange about 9 Sept. |
31. | U-863 | Loaded Kiel July, left 1 Aug from Norway | Sun en route. |
32. | U-180 | 22 Aug, Burdeaux | Believed sunk en route. |
33. | U-195 | 22 Aug, Bordeaux | En route. |
34. | U-219 | 24 Aug, Bordeaux | Believed sunk en route. |
35. | U-871 | Late Aug | Possibly sunk. |
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Vessel | Left Far East | Remarks | |
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1942 | |||
1. | I-30 | May/June | Arrived Europe Aug. |
1943 | |||
2. | U-180 | Apr from Indian Ocean, after rendezvous with Japanese submarine | Arrived Bordeaux July 1943. |
3. | I-8 | 27 June, Penang | Arrived Brest late Aug or early Sept. |
4. | U-178 | Nov/Dec, Penang | Arrived Bordeaux 24-25 May 44. |
5. | "Momi"* | Nov | Sunk near Penang 13 Nov. |
6. | I-29 | 15 Dec, Penang | Arrived Lorient 11 Mar 44. |
1944 | |||
7. | U-188 | Jan, Penang | Blown up at Bordeaux 28 Aug. |
8. | UIT-23 (ex-Giuliani) |
Feb, Penang | Sunk 15 Feb near Penang. |
9. | I-52 | Apr, Singapore | Believed sunk in June, 800 m. W of Cape Verde. |
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Vessel | Left Far East | Remarks | |
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10. | U-1062 | 16 July, Penang | Now en route or sunk. |
11. | U-181 | Oct/Nov | En route. |
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Commodity | Amount Shipped | Amount Known Sunk | ||
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1. | Metals and minerals: | |||
Lead | 325 tons* | 129.96 tons | ||
Aluminum, high grade | 26.5 tons plus 3,740 boxes | |||
Platinum | 12,398.94 grams | 12,396.94 grams | ||
Mercury | 106.34 tons | 95.34 tons | ||
Industrial diamonds | 1,117.76 carats plus an unknown amount | 1,117.76 carats | ||
2. | Steel products: | |||
Special alloy, steel for aircraft motors | 471 boxes plus 121.8 tons | 121.8 tons | ||
Steel balls | About 3,700,000 | About 3,700,000 | ||
Ball bearings | 5 boxes plus 308 packages | 308n packages | ||
3. | Glass: | |||
Optical glass | 72 kgs. plus 4 tons plus an unknown amount | 72 kgs. plus an unknown amount | ||
"Neophane glass," 50 and 75 per cent | Unknown amount | Unknown amount | ||
4. | Electronic equipment: | |||
Wuerzburg Fuse 62 [ground radar] | 8 sets | 4 sets | ||
AEG Company's welder | 1 set | 1 set | ||
Vacuum tubes | Unknown amount | 10 tubes | ||
Parts | Unknown number | |||
Wuerzburg blueprints: type 1 | 4 rolls plus an unnown number of rolls | 4 rolls |
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Commodity | Amount Shipped | Amount Known Sunk | ||
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Hohentwiel Anlage [airborne anti-surface vessel radar, Fug 200] with converter and antenna | 1 set | 1 set | ||
FUMO-61 [submarine-borne radar] | 1 set | 1 set | ||
FUMG Seetakt [coastal radar] with converter and drawings | 1 set | 1 set | ||
Wanz Anlage [radar warning device] | 3 sets | 3 sets | ||
Naxos Borkum [German radar to detect Allied radar transmission] | 2 sets | 2 sets | ||
Night vision apparatus | 5 sets | 5 sets | ||
Abwurfsender FUG-302 [D/F buoy] | 2 sets | 2 sets | ||
"KDB apparatus" | 1 set | 1 set | ||
FuG 102 [obsolete electrical altimeter] | 3 | 3 | ||
Fug 113 [possibly error for FuG 103, electrical altimeter now in use] | 1 | 1 | ||
Oscillograph (Askania) | 1 | 1 | ||
Captured "Rotterdam" apparatius [British "H2S" blind-bombing device] and explanatory documents | 1 set | 1 set | ||
Captured Rosendahl apparatus and explanatory documents [British rearward airborne radar] | 1 set | 1 set |
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Commodity | Amount Shipped | Amount Known Sunk | ||
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"Bold" tubes | 4 | 4 | ||
Vacuum tubes | 9 cases | 9 cases | ||
5. | Weapons and ammunition: | |||
75 mm anti-tank gun, together with ammunition and drawings | 1 | |||
13 mm machine gun mount | 3 sets | 3 sets | ||
Barrels and mountings for 20 mm machine gun | 1 set each | 1 set each | ||
105 mm gun barrel | 1 | 1 | ||
20 mm incendiary ammunition | 20 cases | |||
20 mm armor-piercing and armor-piercing tracer ammunition | 130 cases | |||
20 mm armor-piercing incendiary ammunition | 20 cases | |||
30 mm armor-piercing and armor-piercing tracer ammunition | 10 cases | |||
30 mm tracer ammunition | 10 cases | |||
Unspecified ammunition | 165 boxes | |||
Torpedoes | 22 | |||
"Special equipment" [possiblyu 210 mm WG-21 rocket bombs together with firing tubes] | 2 sets | 2 sets | ||
"Special equipment" [possibly type BV-240 glider bomb together with plans and an "experimental report"] | 1 set | 1 set |
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Commodity | Amount Shipped | Amount Known Sunk | ||
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"LMA-3" magnetic mines to be dropped by aircraft | 5 cases | |||
"LMB-3" acoustic detonators to be dropped by aircraft | 5 cases | |||
Accessories for above 10 mines | 1 case | |||
Simple magnetic mine for submarines | 1 set (of 2) | 1 set (of 2) | ||
Magnetic detonator for electric acoustic torpedo | 1 | 1 | ||
"Special equipment" [possibly magnetic detonators for acoustic torpedoes] | 2 | 2 | ||
6. | Precision optical goods: | |||
"Sight reflector" | 1 | 1 | ||
Optical [circumferential graduator] | 1 | 1 | ||
Bombsight parts [possibly for Lotfe 7D high altitude bombsight] | 1 set | 1 set | ||
Microscope | 1 | 1 | ||
7. | Precision instruments: | |||
Unspecified precision instruments | 1 box | |||
Johnson gauges | 5,214 | 5,214 | ||
"Bild Company transits" | 3 sets | 3 sets | ||
Screw pitch measjuring device | 1 | |||
Ball bearing polishing machine | 1 |
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Commodity | Amount Shipped | Amount Known Sunk | ||
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Drawings for ball bearing polishing machine | 1 set | 1 set | ||
Galvanometer | 1 | 1 | ||
8. | Communications equipment: | |||
Code machine and accessories | 26 machines | 20 machines | ||
Field transmitters | 3 sets | 3 sets | ||
"Main parts" of loud speaking telephone sets | 2 sets | 2 sets | ||
9. | Motor parts: | |||
Exhaust turbine supercharger | 2 sets | 2 sets | ||
"Special gas cut-offs" | 2 sets | 2 sets | ||
[Machine parts?] | 66 kgs. | 66 kgs. | ||
Fuel jet pumps | 35 | |||
10. | Chemicals and drugs: | |||
Eserine galicylate | 200 grams | 125 grams | ||
Emetine chelate | Unknown amount | Unknown amount | ||
Yellow fever virus | Unknown amount | Some lost | ||
Atabrine for injection | 7,950 ampoules | 7,950 ampoules | ||
Atabrine tablets | 600,000 | 600,000 | ||
11. | Miscellaneous: | |||
Respirators | 103 kgs. | 103 kgs. | ||
Pressure cabin parts and drawings [possibly for the German high altitude plan HS 30] | 4 sets | 1 set | ||
Propulsion equipment of rocket launching device | 2 | 2 | ||
Most of the parts of a British Mosquito plane | 15 pieces | 15 pieces | ||
Condensers | "About" 4,400 | "About" 4,400 |
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Commodity | Amount Shipped | Amount Known Sunk | ||
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Electric thermometers | 3 | |||
Carbon rods | 30 | 30 | ||
Sample minesweeping cable, | 40 meters | 40 meters | ||
with "KKG" tubes | 4 | 4 | ||
and sample fuses | 1 set | 1 set | ||
Acoustic minesweeping buoys | 2 | 2 | ||
Aerial cameras with parts | 2 | 2 | ||
Miscellaneous supplies for German submarine bases in the Far East | Unknown amount | Some | ||
Miscellaneous luggage and gtrunks | 520 pieces | 520 pieces | ||
12. | Drawings and plans: | |||
'40 type machine pistol and '08 type ammunition | ||||
'43 type machine pistol and '43 type ammunition | ||||
'42 type machine gun mount, accessories and ball ammunition | ||||
'41 type heavy anti-tank rifle and armor-piercing and explosive ammunition | ||||
'40 type 75 mm anti-tank gun, and '39 and '40 type armor-piercing ammunition | ||||
'40 type 75 mm recoilless gun and '39 type hoillow-charge "B" armor-piercing ammunition | ||||
'41 type 150 mm rocket gun and '41 type ammunition | ||||
'40 type revolving telescopic sight, 4 points | ||||
Drawings for Isetta Co., X-type engine [for high speed motor boats] | All drawings | |||
Partial blueprints for Lorenz Co. and Telefunken Co. radio sets* |
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Commodity | Amount Shipped | Amount Known Sunk | ||
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Drawings of crankshaft grinding jug | All drawings | |||
Drawings of Rheinmetall 13 mm machine gun | All drawings | |||
Report on demagnetizing technique used by the German Navy at Kiel Degaussing Department | ||||
Plans and drawings of British and russian wooden aircraft | ||||
Report on nature and use of Sinter iron [cryptographic materials] | ||||
Report on performance of motors used by the GAF early in 1944 | ||||
Plans and diagrams of latest type German Navy high speed underwater submarine | ||||
Newsreels for Japanese Navy | 2 sets | 2 sets | ||
Drawings of "S equipment" [presumably for "S-Geraet" sound-ranging gear]* | ||||
Drawings of Dete "107" [submarine borne radar]* | ||||
Drawings of Gema vacuum tubes* |
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Commodity | Amount Destroyed | ||
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1. | Metals and minerals: | ||
Aluminum | 1,257 [cars?] | ||
Mercury | 20 tons | ||
2. | Steel products: | ||
Steel balls | 2 boxes | ||
Ball bearings | 114 | ||
3. | Glass: | ||
"Neophane glass" | 17,000 pieces | ||
"Neophane glass 9s" | 11,000 pieces | ||
Photographic lens | 1 | ||
4. | Electronic equipment: | ||
"KDB" fittings | 3 sets | ||
"Ausfahr head for S set" [oscillator for S-Geraet, German sound-ranging gear] | 1 | ||
Aircraft B/F receiver sets | 18 | ||
5. | Weapons and ammunition: | ||
20 mm single mount machine gun and set of accessories | 1 | ||
"H.A." [105 mm gun (less the garrel, which had been loaded on the I-29)] | 1 | ||
Ammunition for 13 mm machine gun | 5,000 rounds | ||
Ammunition for 20 mm machine gun | 5,200 rounds | ||
Samples of various kinds of ammunition | 680 samples |
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Commodity | Amount Destroyed | ||
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Set of parts for torpedo fire control gear and cork [word missing] drawings | 1,000 kgs. | ||
Magnetic mine | 1 | ||
Samples of fuses | 60 | ||
6. | Precision instruments: | ||
Gauges: | |||
Micrometers | 917 | ||
Screw taps | 6,249 | ||
Gauge-blocks | 57 | ||
[word missing] engravers | 100 | ||
Attachments | 5 | ||
Frames | 15 | ||
7. | Communications equipment: | ||
Field teleprinters | 6½ pairs | ||
Teleprinter and parts | 1 | ||
Code machines | 70 | ||
Parts of control telephone | |||
Ultra-short wave transmitter | 1 | ||
8. | Motor parts: | ||
Superchargers [possible for DB-627] | 3 | ||
Sample parts of feed and condensate pumps | 1 set | ||
9. | Miscellaneous: | ||
Rocket take[-off accelerators and accessories [possibly the type used by the JU-88] | |||
Parts for "G.H.G." sets | 1 set | ||
Carbon rods | 66 |
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Commodity | Amount Destroyed | ||
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Minesweepointg [gear] not loaded on the I-29 | |||
Oerliken machine gun tools and accessories | 90 sets | ||
Magazines [for machine guns?] | 30 | ||
Non-ferrous metal searchlight gear | 1 | ||
Aerial camers | 3 | ||
Camshaft testing machine | 1 | ||
"Kalte Haertor" [an adhesive used in the manufacture of aircraft] | 1 ton | ||
"Kauritleim" [an adhesive used in the manufacture of aircraft] | 1 ton |
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Commodity | Amount Available | ||
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1. | Aluminum | Unknown amount | |
2. | Steel products: | ||
Special alloy steel for aircraft motors | 500 tons plus an unknown amount | ||
Steel balls | 470 kgs. | ||
3. | Glass: | ||
Optical glass | 26 tons | ||
Lenses for Zeiss Contax cameras | 250 | ||
4. | Electronic equipment: | ||
FuG 25, IFF ("Identification Friend or Foe") equipment | 5 sets | ||
FuG 101 [Airborne altimeter] | 10 | ||
FuG 213, Lichtenstein anti-surface vessel equipment | 2 sets | ||
Electric transformers for Wuerzburg units | 10 sets | ||
"1651 A and 1651 M vacuum tubes" for French Indo-China | 5 cases | ||
Vacuum tubes, unspecified | 620 kgs. | ||
Dete "500" [submarine-borne radar and drawings] |
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Commodity | Amount Available | ||
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5. | Weapons and ammunition: | ||
20 mm electric firing machine gun, model 151 | |||
30 mm machine guns, model 103 and plans | 3 | ||
30 machine guns, model 108 and plans | 3 | ||
"Panzerfaust" [anti-tank weapon] and blueprints | 100 | ||
"Panzerschrecht" [anti-tank weapon] and blueprints | 2 | ||
Flame throwers | 2 | ||
20 mm ammunition for model 151 machine gun | 3,000 rounds | ||
20 mm high explosive shells for Mauser MG 151 | 700,000 rounds | ||
30 mm ammunition for model 103 and 108 machine guns | 61,500 rounds | ||
Boxes of ammunition | Unknown amount | ||
Electric percussion caps | 1,000 | ||
Parts for electric fuses for aircraft machine guns | Unknown amount | ||
Mines for anti-tank use | 15 | ||
6. | Precision optical goods: | ||
Lotfe 7D bombsights | 4 | ||
Spare gyros | 3 | ||
Testing machines | 3 | ||
Spare parts | 5 | ||
Italian photometers | 3 | ||
Precision measuring instruments | Unknown amount | ||
7. | Communications equipment: | ||
Siemens Hellschreiber equipment | 3 boxes | ||
All wave receivers | 2 sets | ||
Wireless condensers | 530 kgs. | ||
Wireless equipment--ground-air | Unknown amount | ||
Multiple hydrophone installation, cable hook-up diagram | |||
"Sonore" underwater telephone installation |
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Commodity | Amount Available | ||
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8. | Motor parts: | ||
Extractor pumps for battleships | Unknown amount | ||
Parts and plans for feed pumps for torpedo boats and cruisers | Unknown amount | ||
Bosch jet nozzle and pipe for use in motors | 3,400 kgs. | ||
Engine testing apparatus | Unknown amount | ||
9. | Chemicals and drugs: | ||
Atabrine | 1,000 kgs. | ||
Hemoglobin and coloring matter | 60 kgs. | ||
Balsam | 120 kgs. | ||
Trolitul | Unknown amount | ||
Penicillin mold | Unknown amount | ||
Lithium chloride | 6 tons | ||
Benzyl cellulose | 15 tons | ||
Sodium formate | 570 tons | ||
Formic acid | 51 tons | ||
Influenza virus | Unknown amount | ||
Salicylate of eserine | Unknown amount | ||
200-unit bottles of insulin for French Indo-China | [250?] | ||
Tubes containing twenty 0.5 gram tablets of "urotrophine" for French Indo-China | 30,000 tubes | ||
Methylene blue for French Indo-China | 20 kgs. | ||
One-kilogram bottles of chloroform for French Indo-China | 500 bottles | ||
One-kilogram bottles of chloral for French Indo-China | 20 bottles | ||
Emetine chloral hydrate for French Indo-China | 50 grams | ||
One-gram tin cans of salicylate of bismuth for French Indo-China | 100 cans | ||
10. | Miscellaneous: | ||
The "combustion chamber" and other parts of the propulsion equipent used by the German planes ME-163 and ME-202 | Unknown amount | ||
Rocket take-off accelerators for JU-88 | 4 sets |
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Commodity | Amount Available | ||
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10. | Miscellaneous (cont'd): | ||
Aerial photographic cameras: | |||
20 cm. | 50 | ||
75 cm. | 50 | ||
"HS-18" | 180 | ||
Luminous paint | 200 kgs. plus an unknown amount | ||
Luminous [paint for dials] and samples of finished panels | Unknown amount | ||
Machines for making rifle ammunition | 3 | ||
Machines for making steel cartridge cases | Unknown amount | ||
Suface polishing lathe | 1 | ||
Tools for use in making machine guns | 20 kgs. | ||
Spring apparatus for "G7A," description, drawings, etc. | |||
Spring apparatus for "G7E Tat Roman 2" drawings | |||
11. | Documents and drawings: | ||
Drawings of "special 'D' tupe, main storage batteries and hydrogen absoprtion for [illegible] type" high submerged speed submarine | |||
Report on cylinder for Daimler motor torpedo boat engine and for manufacture of cylinder | |||
Drawings of turbines from [Deschain?] Co. and suction and condenser pumps from [Bruchann?] Co. | |||
Drawings for pistons for Daimler motor torpedo boat engine | |||
Diagrams and explanation of FW 190A military instruments and equipment | |||
Explanatory diagrams of electric firing pom-pom gun | |||
summaried list of German machinery produiction together with catalogue | |||
Catalogue of precision measuring instruments | |||
Production drawings for Rheinmetall electric percussion caps | |||
Drawing for drilling machines | |||
Drawings and plans for the manufacture of acoustic torpedos | |||
Miscellaneous documents | 23 boxes | ||
Documents explaining use of "Bold" |
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Left Europe | ||
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Azumi | Expert on purchases of medical supplies | 16 Apr 44 |
Barth | To be attached to the German Military Attaché's office in Japan | 16 Apr 44 |
Berner | To be attached to the German Military Attaché's office in Japan | 16 pr 44 |
Bose, Subhas Chandra and his secretary | President, Provisional Indian Government | 9 Feb 43 |
Brinker | Radar expert from Gema Company | 10 May 43 |
Foders, Heinrich | Engineer from the Telefunken Company | June 43 |
Gondo* | Japan's former Assistant Military Attaché in Italy | 16 June 43 |
Hammitzch, Prof. | To be attached to the German Military Attaché's officer in Japan | 16 Apr 44 |
Hansoka, Lt. Col. | Submarine fuel and percussion cap expert | 16 Apr 44 |
Kihara, Col.* | Japan's former Assistant Military Attaché in Germany | 14 May 43 |
Matsui, Capt. | Radar expert | 16 Apr 44 |
--G-1--
Left Europe | ||
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Maguchi | Aircraft expert | 16 Apr 44 |
Minami | Anti-submarine ordnance expert | 16 Apr 44 |
Miura* | Army surgeon | 16 June 43 |
Makatani | Internal combustion engine expert | 16 Apr 44 |
Nomura, Vice Adm. | Former member of Japanese-German-Italian Joint Specialist Commission under the Tripartite Pact in Berlin | 10 May 43 |
Onishi | Anti-aircraft ordnance expert | 16 Apr 44 |
Onoda | 16 Apr 44 | |
Rheinholdt, Lt. Comdr. | To be adviser to the German Naval Attaché in Japan | 6 Oct 43 |
Sakai | Technician from Sumitomo Co. and expert on motor torpedo boat engines | 16 Apr 44 |
Sakato | Expert on medical supplies | 16 Apr 44 |
Satake | Radar expert | June 43 |
Schuffner | To be attached to the German Military Attaché's office in Japan | 16 Apr 44 |
Shiba, Lt. Col. | Anti-aircraft ordnance and precision optical goods expert | 16 Apr 44 |
Spahn | Head of Nazi Party in Japan | 10 May 43 |
--G-2--
Left Europe | ||
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Sugita, Med. Capt. | 10 May 43 | |
Tanno | Aircraft expert | 16 Apr 44 |
[Urio] | Anti-aircraft ordnance expert | 16 Apr 44 |
Yokoi, Rear Adm. | Former Naval Attaché in Berlin | 6 Oct 43 |
Yoshida, Lt. Col. | Submarine fuel expert | 16 Apr 44 |
Woermann, Ernst | German Ambassador to Nanking | 10 May 43 |
A German Diesel engine expert | June 43 | |
Ten other German technicians | 10 May 43 |
--G-3--
[NOTE: The original page is faded and only partially legible. Shown below is my best guess at the text, and should not be relied on as entirely accurate. --HyperWar] |
Commodity | Quantity believed to have been available for shipment |
Amount believed to have been shipped | Amount known||
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1. | Tungsten | 250 tons | 80 tons plus an unknown amount | 50 tons |
2. | Molybdenum | 40 tons | Unknown amount | See Tin |
3. | Tin | Large quantities | 178 tons (including some molybdenum) plus and unknown amount | 178b tons (including some molybdenum) |
4. | Gold bullion | 3 tons | 3 tons | |
5. | Rubber | Large quantities | [78?] tons plus an unknown amount | 54 tons plus an unknown amount |
6. | Quinine | 27 tons | 3 tons | 3 tons |
7. | Opium | 17 tons | [Illegible] tons | [Illegible] tons |
8. | Japanese electronic equipment and drawings | Unknown amount | ||
9. | Aerial torpedoes No. 2--[illigebile] | 3 | ||
10. | Miscellaneous documents, including weather maps of the Indian Ocean, code books, etc. | [All the documents?] |
--H-1--
Left Far East | ||
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Emi, Tetzujiro, Comdr. | To study German submarine construction | Apr 43 |
Gamo* | Ordnance engineer and expert of the Tokyo Mitsubishi Instrument Co. | Apr 44 |
Hagino, Ichitaro* | A director of the Tokyo Gauge Co. and a gyro expert | Apr 44 |
Ikeda | 15 Dec 43 | |
[Imaoeto?] | To study Italian submarine construction | 15 Dec 43 |
Kawakita, Jiro | To study German jet-propelled planes | 15 Dec 43 |
Kiyota, 1st Class Petty Officer | Apr 44 | |
Kojima, Rear Adm. | To be Japan's Naval Attaché in Germany and Vichy France | 15 Dec 43 |
Kumanato, Hagatoeni, 1st Class Petty Officer | Apr 44 | |
Maeda, Toshi* | Ordnance engineer to study German motor torpedo boat | Apr 44 |
Minekawa | 15 Dec 43 | |
Mizuno, Ichiro* | Engineer of the Japan Optical Works | Apr 44 |
--I-1--
Left Far East | ||
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Moriwaki, Fujio* | German language typist and translator | Apr 44 |
Murakami | 15 Dec 43 | |
Nagamori | 15 Dec 43 | |
Nagao* | Radar expert | Apr 44 |
Nakayama | 15 Dec 43 | |
Okada, Hidetaka, 1st Class Petty Officer* | Apr 44 | |
Okada, Soiichi* | Communications machine expert | Apr 44 |
Okuyama, Ryoitsu, 1st Class Petty Officer* | Apr 44 | |
Samejima | 15 Dec 43 | |
Satori, Jihei | 15 Dec 43 | |
Sunagawa, Eamasa* | Apr 44 | |
Tamai | Appointed Japan's Assistant Naal Attaché in Portugal, October 1944 | 15 Dec 43 |
Tamaru, Lt. Comdr. | 15 Dec 43 | |
Tomonaga, Hideo, Lt. Comdr. | To study German submarine construction | Apr 43 |
Ukai, Jasuji* | Business machine expert of the Aichi Clock Co. | Apr 44 |
Umezeki, Janae, Tech. Comdr. | Apointed Japan's Assistant Naval Attaché in Spain, October 1944 | 15 Dec 4 |
--I-2--
Left Far East | ||
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Waraya, Takashi* | Ordnance engineer and expert of the Tokyo Mitsubishi Instrument Co. | Apr 44 |
50 crew members to man the U-1224 on voyage to the Far East | 27 June 43 |
--I-3--
2008