U Boat Captain Henke

In february 1942 he commisioned his own boat u 515.

U boat captain henke.

Bargsten left u 99 in january 1941 and in march commissioned the u 563 on 27 03 1941 and during battle against convoy hg 75 he sank a freighter but unsuccessfully attacked a royal navy destroyer the pc 565. Gallery on 9 april 1944 and henke was captured along with about 40 of his crew. He was shot and killed while attempting to escape from the pow interrogation center in fort hunt virginia in the united states. Other u boat aces were u 515 werner henke u 37 victor oehrn and u 504 hans poske.

The u boat war in world war two kriegsmarine 1939 1945 and world war one kaiserliche marine 1914 1918 and the allied efforts to counter the threat. In heavy seas he sighted one of the lifeboats and its occupants waved to him. U 515 was sunk by the us task group 22 3 commanded by daniel v. The bdu the supreme commander of the kriegsmarine u boat arm ordered u 515 to return to the position of the sinking to find out the ship s destination about noon the u boat commander kapitänleutnant werner henke decided to rescue the ceramic s skipper.

Werner henke had his first naval experience on board the battleships admiral scheer and schleswig holstein his first u boat was u 124 under the command of kapitänleutnant wilhelm schultz the last of his four patrols with the edelweissboot he completed under the later famous kapitänleutnant jochen mohr. Over 40 000 pages on the officers the boats technology and the allied efforts to counter the u boat threat. The list of most successful u boat commanders contains the top scoring german u boat commanders in the two world wars based on their total tonnage sunk. This is often due to convoy battles at night when an attacking wolfpack fired torpedoes into the convoy and two sometimes more.