U-48: The Most Successful U-Boat of the Second World War

Name: U-48: The Most Successful U-Boat of the Second World War
Brand: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
SKU: 9781399014311
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Szerző: FRANZ KUROWSKI

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Following the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, Germany was not permitted to build or ope...

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Szerző

FRANZ KUROWSKI

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2021

oldal

208

EAN

9781399014311

ISBN

1399014315

Enbook ID

35567860

Kiadó

Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Súly

396

Méretek

233 x 156 x 18

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Following the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, Germany was not permitted to build or operate submarines. However, clandestine training took place on Finnish and Spanish submarines and U-boats were still built to German designs in Dutch yards.At the outset of the Second World War, Admiral Karl Dönitz argued for a 300-strong U-boat fleet, since his force of fifty-seven assorted U-boats could not materially affect British seaborne trade on their own. In August 1939, U-48 left Germany, commanded by Kapitänleutnant Herbert Vaddi Schultze, to take up a waiting position around the British coast.It scored its first success on 5 September, when it torpedoed the British freighter Royal Sceptre, followed by Winkleigh on 8 September. On both occasions, the first of many, Schultze showed himself to be a notable humanitarian: he addressed signals to Churchill giving positions of the sinkings so that crews could be saved.By 1 August 1941, U-48, the most successful U-boat of the Second World War, had sunk fifty-six merchant ships, of 322,478 gross tons, and one corvette. She was then transferred to the Baltic as a training boat. Schultze became commander of operations at 3 U-Flotilla, before being appointed commander of II/Naval College Schleswig. He died in 1987 at the age of 78.U-48 was scuttled on 3 May 1945.

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