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Offline conus00

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Type XXI conning tower on type IXA (U-37)
« on: 02 Aug , 2009, 14:10 »
I have recently came across a drawing in Waldemar Trojca's U-bootwaffe 1939-1945 cz.4 (page 38) which shows a type XXI conning tower on type IXA.
The Polish captioning next to the drawing says: Doswiadczalna nadbudowka zamontowana na U 37 (typ "IX A").
I think it means "Experimental superstructure mounted on U 37"

Did anybody here heard about such a thing? Did Germans really tried to cross-platform project like this?
I have tried multiple Google searches but came up empty.

I just think that it might be an interesting idea for a conversion.
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Re: Type XXI conning tower on type IXA (U-37)
« Reply #1 on: 02 Aug , 2009, 16:38 »
Very interesting! Not sure what people know/can dig up
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Re: Type XXI conning tower on type IXA (U-37)
« Reply #2 on: 09 Aug , 2009, 07:38 »
Here is the reference picture:
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