U Boat Captain Henke

The u boat war in world war two kriegsmarine 1939 1945 and world war one kaiserliche marine 1914 1918 and the allied efforts to counter the threat.

U boat captain henke.

This is often due to convoy battles at night when an attacking wolfpack fired torpedoes into the convoy and two sometimes more. Gallery on 9 april 1944 and henke was captured along with about 40 of his crew. In heavy seas he sighted one of the lifeboats and its occupants waved to him. Werner henke 13 may 1909 15 june 1944 was the commander of u 515 in the battle of the atlantic of world war ii.

Other u boat aces were u 515 werner henke u 37 victor oehrn and u 504 hans poske. The tonnage figures and sometimes the number of ships sunk is still being debated among historians. Werner henke had his first naval experience on board the battleships admiral scheer and schleswig holstein his first u boat was u 124 under the command of kapitänleutnant wilhelm schultz the last of his four patrols with the edelweissboot he completed under the later famous kapitänleutnant jochen mohr. He was shot and killed while attempting to escape from the pow interrogation center in fort hunt virginia in the united states.

Over 40 000 pages on the officers the boats technology and the allied efforts to counter the u boat threat. U 515 was sunk by the us task group 22 3 commanded by daniel v. The list of most successful u boat commanders contains the top scoring german u boat commanders in the two world wars based on their total tonnage sunk. Joachim schepke 8 march 1912 17 march 1941 was a german u boat commander during world war ii he was the seventh recipient of the knight s cross of the iron cross with oak leaves it was germany s highest military decoration at the time of its presentation to joachim schepke.