Das Boot U-Boat Kriegsmarine World War Two Hitler`s Germany Adolf Hitler

Das Boot Titel.Adolf Hitler During the war the U-boats sank about 2,779 ships for a total of about 14,000,000 tons GRT. This figure is roughly 70% of all allied shipping losses in all theatres of the war and to all hostile action. The most successful year was 1942 when over 6,000,000 tons of shipping were sunk in the Atlantic. German U-Boats Crews and Commanders (Join Us) The Show must go on.War is Hell. Otto Kretschmer, 1912 – 1998 (Fregattenkapitan) Sank 44 ships, 262,203 grt Commanded: U23, U-99 Highest scoring ace, Otto Kretschmer, or the “tonnage king” caused more destruction on the high seas than any other submarine commander to this date. An aggressive commander, his strategy was to attack at night, on the surface and under cover of darkness. His last patrol scored him ten ships, before he was captured. After the war, Kretschmer became a rear admiral in the Federal German Navy and Chief of Staff of the NATO command. Gunther Prien, 1908 – 1941 (Korvettenkapitan) Sank 33 ships, 197,218 grt Commanded: U-47The Bull of Scapa Flow, he became a celebrity skipper after sinking the British battleship HMS Royal Oak in the heavily defended port of Scapa Flow. He won accolades not only from within Germany, but Churchill himself wrote about his outstanding feat of arms. Quick tempered and staunch, his loss in 1941 caused the nation to mourn. It was not entirely clear how his boat was sunk, as reports suggest he was either depth charged by a British destroyer, or fell victim to...