U 72 (Navy)

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U 72 (Kriegsmarine)
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Type : VII C
Field Post Number : M 21 325
Shipyard: Germania shipyard , Kiel
Construction contract: January 25, 1939
Build number: 619
Keel laying: December 28, 1939
Launch: November 12, 1940
Commissioning: January 4, 1941
Commanders:
  • January 4, 1941 - September 1941
    Kkpt. Hans-Werner Neumann
  • September 1941 - December 1, 1941
    Oblt.zS Helmut Köster
  • December 2, 1941 - May 6, 1942
    Lieutenant Waldemar Mehl
  • May 7, 1942 - November 19, 1942
    Oblt.zS Martin Scheibe
  • November 20, 1942 - December 14, 1943
    Oblt.zS Helmut Lange
  • December 15, 1943 - May 19, 1944
    Oblt.zS Paul Sander
  • May 20, 1944 - March 30, 1944
    Oblt.zS Karl-Theodor Mayer
Calls: no ventures
Sinkings:

no

Whereabouts: destroyed on March 30, 1945 in an air raid on Bremen

U 72 was a German submarine of type VIIC that in World War II by the German navy as a school boat was used to train members of the submarine weapon.

history

The order for the boat was awarded to the Germania shipyard in Kiel on January 25, 1939 . The keel was laid on December 28, 1939, the launch on November 22, 1940, the commissioning under Corvette Captain Hans-Werner Neumann on January 4, 1941.

After its commissioning until June 8, 1941, the boat belonged to the 21st U-Flotilla in Pillau as a school boat and from June 9, 1941 to July 1, 1941 as a school boat to the 24th U-Flotilla in Memel . Then from July 2, 1941 to March 30, 1945 it came back as a school boat to the 21st U-Flotilla in Pillau. During the evacuation of the base in front of the advancing Red Army , U 72 moved to Kiel .

U 72 was purely a school and training boat and did not complete any operations in the front during its service.

Whereabouts

The boat was sunk on March 30, 1945 in Bremen at Deschimag AG Weser during an air raid by the 8th Air Force of the USAAF by bomb hits. The wreck was blown up on May 2, 1945 and demolished after the war.

literature

  • Clay Blair : The Submarine War. Volume 1: The Hunters. 1939-1942. Heyne, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-453-12345-X .
  • Clay Blair: The Submarine War. Volume 2: The Hunted, 1942–1945. Heyne, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-453-16059-2 .
  • Robert M. Browning Jr .: US Merchant Vessel War casualties of World War II. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis MD 1996, ISBN 1-55750-087-8 .
  • Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 1: The German submarine commanders. ES Mittler und Sohn , Hamburg et al. 1996, ISBN 3-8132-0490-1 .
  • Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 2: U-boat construction in German shipyards. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg et al. 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0512-6 .
  • Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 3: German submarine successes from September 1939 to May 1945. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg et al. 2001, ISBN 3-8132-0513-4 .
  • Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 4: German submarine losses from September 1939 to May 1945. ES Mittler und Sohn, Hamburg et al. 1999, ISBN 3-8132-0514-2 .
  • Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The submarine war 1939-1945. Volume 5: The knight's cross bearers of the submarine weapon from September 1939 to May 1945. ES Mittler and Son, Hamburg et al. 2003, ISBN 3-8132-0515-0 .
  • Erich Gröner : Die Handelsflotten der Welt 1942 and supplement 1944. JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-469-00552-4 (reprint of the 1942–1943 edition).
  • Erich Gröner: Search list for ship names (= The merchant fleets of the world. Supplementary volume). JF Lehmanns Verlag Munich 1976, ISBN 3-469-00553-2 (reprint of the 1943 edition).

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Rainer Busch, Hans-Joachim Röll: The U-Boat War 1939-1945. Volume 2: U-boat construction in German shipyards. ES Mittler and Son, Hamburg a. a. 1997, page 37

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