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Re: Black Cross Red Star, Vol. 2, now sent to the printer - this is not the old edition!
page 178 has in the Baltic "... the Soviets sank 43 vessels."
in "Allied Submarine Attacks of World War Two ETO 1939-1945" Jurgen Rohwer
and a number of the (From Soviet Empire) in axishistoryforum.com and from an answer on this site this is what I have for 1942:
submarines: 23 ships sunk 3 others possible and 7 damaged with 2 other possible
aircraft 1 sunk and 5 or 6 damaged
TKA 1 ship sunk
2 ships sunk mines laid by Soviet mines in 1941
A problem in the Baltic is it was heavily mined too put it mildly so it's sometimes hard to figure out whose mine sank which ship.
page 176 Spitsa's German pistol lets just say millions of Soviet military personel and civilians brought home firearms as soveniers ect. Even though the USSR had strict gun control laws
Marshall Grigory Zhukov was found to have brought home "Twenty unique Shotguns from Holland & Holland" according to "Stalin the court of the Red Tsar" S.S. Montefiore page 548
The American Rifleman Feb 1989 It was estimated at this time there were 15-17 million illegal firearms in the then USSR. A joke of the period "Why do Estonians pour oil in their flower beds? So their guns won't rust!"
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