Germans submarine operations in the Pacific

Did German submarines receive any logistic support from the IJN (whilst operating in the Pacific)?

Except of the famous U-235 (which headed for Japan with radioactive materials and a disassembled jet plane loaded and surrendered to the Americans at the end of the war in Europe)I do not know of any German submarine operations in the Pacific. If there were any ops I would be surprised if they were coordinated between the Kriegsmarine and the

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Some, though almost all Gemran sub operations were in the Indian Ocean or nearby waters. According to one source (listed below) U862 was the 'only german craft to violate the pacific ocean', while circling Australia. Most of the German and Italian submarines operated out of Penang, and got some (apparently grudging) support from the Japanese, mainly fuel and basic supplies and shore support for crew. However, the Japanese and Germans never apparently made any great effort to really co-ordinate and cooperate. While they trans-shipped some 'strategic materials' there never appeared to be any joint strategic plan. Towards the end of the war the sub base was moved to Djakarta. German/Japanese cooperation on submarine interdiction in the Indian Ocean could have given the allies a real headache. Both navies operated in the region (some 40 German/Italian boats eventually reached Penang, and Japanese subs raided at least as far West as Yemen), but never seemed to act like proper allies.

see http://leden.tref.nl/~juiss000/Uboats.htm

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It's comparatively well known (although there are still many aspects to it that are not), U-234 was the boat involved.

Interestingly when it surrendered it was directed to sail to Canada for internment there. However the captain thought that he would get better treatment in the US and sailed towards the US instead. The US helped him to do this by jamming the Canadian radio station attempting to 'control' the U 234 and by sending the USS Sutton to intercept the boat and bring it to port.

Crew from the U 234 report that although they were well treated by the crew of the Sutton once ashore they were very badly treated and wished they had sailed to Canada as initially directed.
http://www.uboat.net (There may be a '-' between u and boat) I'm sure will have more information. But by way of introduction, a good all round read can be found in 'Hirschfeld The secret diary of a U Boat' by Wolfgang Hirschfeld ISBN 0-304-35498-8 . Most of the book revolves around his service in Type IX U boats however his final posting was as the warrant officer in charge of the radio room on the U 234. A very readable first hand account.

I read a newspaper article some years ago about a U-Boat which sailed down the Western Australian coast from Java(?), along the Southern coast to the south of Tasmania, eastwards to circle New Zealand, then returned along the same route to Singapore where it berthed in January 1945 and stayed there till the end of the European war. On this tour it sank 3 ships and damaged several others, apparently without loss of life!

identified as German until July 1981.

That is an amazing story. But was the auto weather station still in function after WWII ? It would have been quite a feat if it was still in operation in