U 174
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| Type : | IX C |
| Launch: | August 21, 1941 |
| Commissioning: | November 26, 1941 |
| Commanders: |
Oberleutnant zur See Wolfgang Grandefeld |
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| Whereabouts: | Sunk south of Newfoundland on April 27, 1943. |
U 174 was a German submarine of the type IX C, which was used in the Second World War by the Navy . It ran on 21 August 1941 by stack and was put into service on 26 November 1941st The boat was sunk on April 27, 1943 in the North Atlantic, south of Newfoundland at the coordinates 43 ° 35 ′ N , 56 ° 18 ′ W , by a Lockheed Ventura (pilot Lieutenant Thomas Kinaszczuk) of the VP-125 squadron of the United States Navy . Commander Oblt.zS Wolfgang Grandefeld and all other 52 crew members were killed.
literature
- Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars. Translated from the English by Alfred P. Zeller. Urbes-Verlag, Graefelfing before Munich 1998, ISBN 3-924896-43-7 , p. 115.
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