I wonder why the site has a list of worlfpacks if the list isn't complete. Missing is the wolfpack with Kraken, Bullhead and one other where Bullhead became the last casualty of the war and my wife's grandfather lost many good friends from his sister boat.

I seem to recall reading in Wahoo by Okane that during the third patrol, Ultra intercepted a distress call by the convoy Cmdr. Morton was attacking that stated they were being attacked by a wolfpack of submarines. This coined the term "One boat wolfpack" when referring to the USS Wahoo.

Chuck

This is just a thought but I seem to recall that Donitz and the rest of the U-Boat command structure considered them to be wolves with one exception.....

From memory (and I think it's in one of the volumes of Pridham and Noakes or in the Battle for the Atlantic), that during Operation Drumbeat, where the larger boats operated independently of each other, the German propaganda teams considered them as sharks hunting as loners testing themselves against the sea and the enemy.

I accept that this is a somewhat romantic notion of U-Boat operations but there was a strong feeling running through the entire OKW that the best trained men, with the best motives and best equipment could overcome all obstacles. This of course was a fallacy as the defeat of the U-Boats proved.

Of course, not only did the technical edge the Allies had developed do severe and lasting damage to the operations and success of the German U-Boats after mid-'42 but the fact thet the US shipyards could simpy outbuild the losses meant that more and more of the effort put in by the U-Boats was futile.

Some of that was to uplift the American public as well. Wahoo was kicking major butt!!! There was one instance, forget the sub, were the skipper said they were so close to Japan that they were betting on the horse races going on in Tokyo. That made the paper and was part of a feel good type campaign the papers took on.