U 766
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| Type : | VII C |
| Field Post Number : | M-53 610 |
| Shipyard: | Kriegsmarine shipyard Wilhelmshaven |
| Construction contract: | August 15, 1940 |
| Build number: | 149 |
| Keel laying: | March 1, 1941 |
| Launch: | May 29, 1943 |
| Commissioning: | July 30, 1943 |
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July 30, 1943 to August 24, 1944 |
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| Calls: | 4 activities |
| Sinkings: |
no |
| Whereabouts: | Decommissioned on August 24, 1944 in La Pallice . Captured by the French in May 1945, repaired and put into service again in 1947 as "Laubie" . Renamed "Q 335" on March 11, 1963 and canceled. |
U 766 was a German submarine that was used in the last phase of the submarine war . It served together with U 471 , U 510 and U 2518 in the French Navy until the 1960s .
boat
U 766 was commissioned on August 15, 1940 from the Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven , together with U 763 , U 764 , U 765 , U 767 and U 768 . The keel was laid on March 1, 1941 under the designation "Neubau 149", the launch took place on May 29, 1943. The commissioning took place on July 30, 1943 under Oberleutnant zur See Hans-Dietrich Willke. In addition to the coat of arms of the 6th U-Flotilla, the boat also had its own tower emblems: the red lantern (from St. Pauli) on a riveted shield, a shot down airplane with the date August 16, 1944, and a green four-leaf clover.
Mission history
On March 9, 1944, U 766 ran from Kiel and moved to Kristiansand , where it was assigned to Gruppe Mitte as a rescue boat.
On March 21, 1944, the boat moved to Bergen, where some additions were made, before leaving for the North Atlantic in the area west of Ireland. No ships were sunk or damaged during the 24-day voyage, and on April 16, 1944 the boat entered St. Nazaire . There it was assigned to the “Farmer's Group”.
On June 6, 1944, the boat left St. Nazaire to take part in the fight against the Allied invasion fleet in the English Channel . Also on this 8 day long expedition no ships could be sunk or damaged before the boat returned to St. Nazaire.
The boat moved from St. Nazaire to Brest on July 26, 1944, where ammunition and provisions were taken over, and from there went back to sea on August 2 as part of the "Wiesel Group". Even on this only four day long venture in the Bay of Biscay and in the English Channel , there were no successes in the sinking. U 766 returned to Brest on August 6th .
Just two days later, on August 8th, U 766 left Brest for the Bay of Biscay again. This operation also went without sinking, but on August 14, 1944, the boat was attacked by a Canadian Wellington bomber , which severely damaged the boat, but was shot down by the submarine itself. After the U 766 entered La Pallice , the damage turned out to be so severe that it was decided to take the U 766 out of service for repair. The crew then took over U 382 , with which they relocated to Norway.
Whereabouts
When the French captured U 766 after the surrender of the fortress commander of La Pallice in May 1945 , they put it into service as “Laubie” in 1947 after repairs . The boat sailed as “Laubie” together with “Millé” (ex. U 471 ), “Roland Morilliot” (ex. U 2518 ) and “Bouan” (ex. U 510 ) until the 1960s, before all of them entered Q 335 (U 766) , Q 339 (U 471) , Q 426 (U 2518) and Q 176 (U 510) were renamed, scrapped and scrapped.
literature
- 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 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Högel: Emblems, coats of arms, Malings German submarines 1939-1945. 5th edition. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7822-1002-7 , p. 146.