U 872
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| Type : | IX D2 |
| Field Post Number : | M-50 158 |
| Shipyard: | Deschimag AG Weser , Bremen |
| Construction contract: | August 25, 1941 |
| Build number: | 1080 |
| Keel laying: | December 25, 1942 |
| Launch: | October 20, 1943 |
| Commissioning: | February 10, 1944 |
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| Calls: | no ventures |
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| Whereabouts: | Destroyed on July 29, 1944 in Bremen by bombs from a US air raid. |
U 872 was a German trans-Atlantic submarine of the type IX D2 , which wasintendedby the Navy for use in East Asiaduring World War II .
Construction, commissioning and training
After the award of the construction contract on August 25, 1941, which included six boats of the type IX D2, the keel of the large boat was laid on Christmas Day 1942 at the Deschimag shipyard in Bremen with the ban number 1080. Ten months after the keel was laid, the boat was launched and was put into service on February 10, 1944 after the remaining equipment under the command of Lieutenant Peter-Ottmar Grau. Kapitänleutnant Grau previously commanded the Type VII B boat U 46 , which he had taken over from Kapitänleutnant Engelbert Endrass , as well as the Type VII C "Eismeerboot" U 601 , with which he sank four merchant ships with a total tonnage of 8.869 GRT on seven patrols. The crew of U 872 consisted of the original crew of U 601 , who also gave the boat a tower emblem: a polar bear on a red-green shield. The boat belonged to the 4th U-Flotilla in Stettin , which was under the command of frigate captain Heinz Fischer, as a training boat until it was ready for the front. The boat went through the standard training with the various commands u. a. at the U-Abnahmekommando (UAK), the Torpedoerprobungskommando (TEK) and the AGRU Front, as well as the various training flotillas such as the 26th U-Flotilla and the 27th U-Flotilla .
The end of the long distance boat
On July 29, 1944, the 8th Air Force flew a heavy air raid on Bremen , during which the operational U 872 was hit by bombs. One crew member went down with the boat while the rest of the crew were not on board. The sinking of U 872 took place in the naval plan square AN 9858 at the position 53 ° 04 'N - 08 ° 44' E. The boat was supposed to leave on August 1 for the first patrol to the Far East. The boat was lifted, decommissioned on August 10, 1944 and broken up in 1946. Commander Grau and the remaining crew of U 872 went to Bremen again for building instruction, but this time for a Type XXI electric boat. Grau put U 3015 into service on December 17, 1944 . For this boat, Grau took over the polar bear emblem from U 872 . U 3015 was sunk on May 5, 1945 in the Geltinger Bucht by its own crew in accordance with the rainbow order .
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. 153.