Gottfried Fischer (U-505)
It is 4 weeks today that we've left base. What a thankless task, and we have got another 3 months to go. We have been assigned our area of operations by wireless today. The West-African Gold Coast. We're on a heading of 210° with the Cape Verdes Islands just on our beam. Unfortunately we're not going anywhere close to the equator. I would have loved to take part in a crossing the line ceremony, even though I'm certain that Neptune would not have shown any mercy with us. Fortunately, we were able to fix our threat receiver again - after 4 long night shifts.
14 April 1944