Don and others interested.
A few years back Maciek introduced me to an US author Larry Simpson who was looking for a technical consultant on German Uboats like VIICs and IXCs. I volunteered on a non paid basis, but after Maciek passed away I became the only technical consultant to the writer. Larry Simpson wrote a fiction book of a German WW2 submarine deploying a weather station in Alaska. We decided to choose a IXC /40type and used the U 807, a boat having keel laid down in 1943 but never commissioned. We worked on the book for about two years and in these days it is published on Amazon. The title is Cold Refuge by Larry Simpson. Larry let the Chief engineer explain the technical details related to the uboat and as he was`t fully conversant with the law of Archimedes he, with my consent, introduced me as the chief of the U 807 explaining the details. If you have a Kindle you might get a copy at Amazon for a very reasonable price. I guess the book is interesting as the story of the Uboat weather stations are not widely known.
Tore