Gruppe Monsun

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Gruppe Monsun (Monsoon Group) was a force of German U-boats (submarines) that operated in the Pacific and Indian Oceans during the Second World War. Although similar naming conventions were used for temporary groupings of submarines in the Atlantic, the longer duration of Indian Ocean patrols caused the name to be permanently associated with the relatively small number of U-boats operating from Penang (primarily its capital, George Town). After 1944, the U-boats of gruppe Monsun were placed under the authority of the Southeast Asia U-boat Region. The Indian Ocean was the only place where German and Japanese forces fought in the same theatre. To avoid incidents between Germans and Japanese, attacks on other submarines were forbidden. Altogether 41 U-boats of all types, including transports, were sent, many of these were lost and few returned to Europe.

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