classic photograph.

[flag4]

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/7579/endrassandcrew.jpg

great photo.
take some time to look at their faces....especially Endrass.
i have the feeling he was a good man.:up:

some thoughts are welcome..

[LemonA]

I dont know what was behind his death but it looks like he tried to attack one or two lonely destroyers in the middle of the atlantic.
A dumb decision from him which costs him and 40 others their lives.

[Sailor Steve]

I dont know what was behind his death but it looks like he tried to attack one or two lonely destroyers in the middle of the atlantic.
A dumb decision from him which costs him and 40 others their lives.
According to what I've read Endrass was attacking a convoy, not "one or two lonely destroyers".
He attacked HG-76, sinking one merchant, and was killed while trying to attack the convoy a second time.
http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/1231.html

[flag4]

I dont know what was behind his death but it looks like he tried to attack one or two lonely destroyers in the middle of the atlantic.
A dumb decision from him which costs him and 40 others their lives.
:nope:
i just can not imagine Endrass being 'dumb.'

According to what I've read Endrass was attacking a convoy, not "one or two lonely destroyers".
He attacked HG-76, sinking one merchant, and was killed while trying to attack the convoy a second time.
http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/1231.html
:up:

Eric Topp writes a heart felt piece about his great friend Endrass in 'In Memoriam Engelbert Endrass.' Castor mourns Pollux.

this piece with many other excellent essays can be found in Silent Hunters: German U Boat Commanders of World War Two. edited by Theodore P. Savas.

[Jimbuna]

The long run of success Endrass had seen both as 1WO of U-47 and skipper of U-46 was then to come to a sudden end. On his first patrol as commander of U-567, he ran into trouble north-east of the Azores in the shape of the British attack vessel HMS Deptford. Succumbing to the Deptford's depth charge attack, U-567 went down with all hands on 21 December 1941.


http://www.u47.org/english/u47_cre.asp?member=endrass

[HW3]

Sunk 21 Dec, 1941 in the North Atlantic north-east of the Azores, in position 44.02N, 20.10W, by depth charges from the British sloop HMS Deptford (http://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3897.html) and the British corvette HMS Samphire (http://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/5538.html). 47 dead (all hands lost).

http://www.uboat.net/boats/u567.htm

And it was a convoy (HG76) that he was attacking as both ships listed as attacking U-567 are listed as escorting that convoy at that time. U-108 attacked the same convoy on 19 Dec, 1941.

:salute:

[Cybermat47]

I should like a hat like that.

Brave men. :salute:

[flag4]

No sign of him being 'dumb' then, just unlucky like so many others.

[Sailor Steve]

That's my take on it. :yep:

[VONHARRIS]

Since we are talking about Kptlntn Endrass ,I found this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vQ8uWHo4uw

According to the narrator , at the end of the video , the Kaleun is Kptltnt Endrass.