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» U-247 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's launched on 23 September 1943 and commissioned on 23 OCT under the command of Oberleutnant zur See Gerhard Matschulat. Her first sortie began with her departure from Bergen on 31 May 1944. She passed into the Atlantic Ocean via the gap between the Faroe and Shetland Islands. ................
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