WWII German Newsreel Die Deutsche Wochenschau Marked on tail #630 Appears to be complete, about 20m
Rail cars and engines loaded onto ships for transport across Mediterranean to Afrika Korps
Naval battle in Mediterranean vs. British / running British blockade
German seaplane scouts British fleet
Rail car arrives in North Africa, along with locomotive. Train assembled and supplies including live goats board
Supplies arrive for Afrika Korps via train
Rommel with officers
Otto Kubelwagen — probably Generalleutnant Otto Hoffmann von Waldau
German night bomb raids with Junkers Ju-88
German uboat crew meets Japanese uboat crew — this is the Japanese submarine I-8 ,that visited German Occupied France, June 1943
German uboat pens
State dinner with Japanese and Germans
Tug of war and calisthenics
German submarine commander honored
Attacks against Murmansk by air
With stukas and bombers
Sunmer aur attacks toward Stalingrad
Caucus — moving artillery with mules
On 1 June 1943, the Japanese submarine I-8 departed Kure on the second Yanagi mission. I-8 would be the only Japanese submarine to complete a round trip. The boat carried 160 personnel including a second 49-man crew intended to man the German Type IXC/40 submarine U-1224 “Marco Polo II” upon arrival in Germany. On 27 June, I-8 departed Penang with a cargo of tungsten, rubber, tin, quinine, probably medicinal opium, and blueprints for the Type 95 torpedo. Upon rounding the Cape of Good Hope, I-8 was battered by severe storms, which damaged her aircraft hangar. In August, I-8 rendezvoused with U-161 south of the Azores and took on a new German radar detector as well as a German officer and two petty officer radiomen to assist with the entry to German-occupied France, arriving there on 31 August. U-161 was subsequently lost, with the three Germans on I-8 being the only survivors of U-161’s last patrol.
On 5 October 1943, I-8 departed Brest, France, with a cargo that included a Schnellboot (E-boat) engine, radars, sonar equipment, aircraft guns and anti-aircraft guns, bombsights, electric torpedoes, and naval chronometers. Passengers included a Japanese rear admiral and a captain (former naval attachés to Germany and France), three other German naval officers, one German army officer, several radar and hydrophone technicians, and four civilians. After crossing the equator, I-8 transmitted a report that was fixed by Allied high-frequency direction finding (HFDF), resulting in an aircraft attack that was unsuccessful. I-8 arrived in Penang on 2 December 1943 and Kure on 21 December 1943 after an otherwise uneventful transit. On 21 February 1944, under a new commanding officer, Commander Tatsunosuke Ariizumi, I-8 departed Kure en route the Indian Ocean to raid Allied commerce.
