THE AXIS AND ALLIED MARITIME OPERATIONS AROUND SOUTHERN AFRICA 1939 1945 - WAR ON SOUTHERN AFRICA SEA

1.1:   An Allied merchant convoy approaching Cape Town Harbour, 1940s      

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1.2:   South African agricultural produce ready for export to the United Kingdom

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1.3:   An Allied vessel taking on important local supplies, 1940s                         

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1.4:   Key imports ready for delivery to Cape Town, 1940s                                 

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1.5:   The return of the 1^st South African Division from North Africa, 1943       

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1.6:  The official opening of the Duncan Dock at Cape Town Harbour, 1943    

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1.7:   HMS Illustrious calling at Cape Town during the war                                  

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1.8:   Vice Admiral (Sir) Campbell Tait – C-in-C South Atlantic Station (1942-1944)

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1.9:   Naval repair work undertaken at a South African port during the war    

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2.1    Vice Admiral (Sir) Edward Evans – C-in-C Africa Station (1933-1935)      

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2.2:   Vice Admiral (Sir) George D’Oyly Lyon – C-in-C Africa Station (1938-1939)

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2.3:   Seaward Defence Force officers in training at Cape Town Castle, circa 1940

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2.4:  Semaphore signals pass between South African minesweepers, circa 1940

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2.5:   A coastal gun defending Cape Town Harbour, circa 1940                          

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2.6:   A South African exanimation officer boarding a merchant ship, circa 1940

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2.7:   Two South African anti-submarine vessels out on patrol, circa 1942       

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2.8:   A South African minesweeping vessel conducting a regular sweep, circa 1942

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2.9:   Naval men inspecting a German magnetic mine beached off Agulhas, 1940

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2.10: A SAAF aircraft returning from a dawn coastal patrol, circa 1940            

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3.1:   Grand Admiral Erich Raeder                                                                           

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3.2:   Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz                                                                              

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3.3:   German U-boat crew assisting the survivors of a sunken merchantman 

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3.4:   A German U-boat refuelling from a supply ship in the South Atlantic        

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3.5:   German U-boats operational in the Southern Oceans, circa 1941              

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3.6:   U-156 and U-507 assisting survivors from the Laconia, 15 Sept 1942       

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3.7:   A U-boat watching its target sink in the Southern Oceans                       

3.8:   The top U-boat aces in South African waters during the war – Karl-Friederich

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Merten, Wolfgang Lüth, Helmut Witte                                                            

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4.1:   Marietjie and Will Radley – couriers between Germany and South Africa 

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4.2:   Hans Rooseboom, front row second from right, while interned at Leeuwkop

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4.3:   Lothar Sittig, the infamous FELIX, photographed after the war                 

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4.4:   The radio transmitter built by Reijer Groenewald and operated by FELIX

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4.5:   The secret rendezvous location near Cape St Francis                                 

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4.6:   Pre-war organisation of the Cape Intelligence Area Reporting Officers    

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4.7:   Organisation of the Cape Naval Intelligence Centre, 1940-1942                

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4.8:   The SO “Y” Organisation in South Africa during the war                             

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4.9:   Wartime organisation of the Cape Intelligence Area Reporting Officers  

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4.10: A Guard aboard a merchant ship at a South African harbour during the war

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4.11: A journalist aboard a visiting Allied naval vessel during the war   159                                                      

4.12: Allied wartime propaganda posters aimed at preventing careless talk about shipping

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5.1:   A Ventura in service with the SAAF during the war                                     

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5.2:   Ernst Sobe – the ill-fated commander of U-179                                             

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5.3:   Vice Admiral (Sir) James Somerville – C-in-C Eastern Fleet (1942-1944) 

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5.4:   An RAF Catalina attached to Coastal Area Command at Durban                

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5.5:   An RAF Catalina on an anti-submarine patrol off the South African coast 

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5.6:   Robert Bartels – the commander of U-197                                                    

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5.7:   Karl Wunderlich – the commander of UIT-22                                               

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5.8:   Flt Lt Nash homing in on UIT-22 during the final attack                              

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