U 176
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| Type : | IX C |
| Launch: | September 12, 1941 |
| Commissioning: | December 15, 1941 |
| Commanders: |
Corvette Captain Reiner Dierksen |
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| Whereabouts: | Sunk on May 15, 1943 northeast of Havana . |
U 176 was a German submarine of the type IX C, which was used in the Second World War by the Navy . It ran on 12 September 1941 by the stack and was put into service on 15 December 1941st
On May 15, 1943, it was sunk northeast of Havana at the coordinates 23 ° 21 ' N , 80 ° 18' W by a Vought Kingfisher of the VS-62 squadron of the US Navy and the Cuban patrol boat CS13 . The entire crew of 52 men with Corvette Captain Reiner Dierksen lost their lives.
literature
- Paul Kemp: The German and Austrian submarine losses in both world wars . Translated from the English by Alfred P. Zeller, Urbes-Verlag, Graefelfing vor München 1998, ISBN 3-924896-43-7 , pp. 120-121.
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