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On Mon. 22 may 1944 U-530 departed Lorient, France for Trinidad. Aboar.....

1944-05-22

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U-530 departed Lorient, France for Trinidad. Aboard, she carried a Naxos radar detector to be given to the Japanese when she was to meet with Japanese submarine I-52.

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