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Originally Posted by mookiemookie
Commander casualties without the boat being lost:
- Radke of U-657 was killed during training
- Rasch of U-106 was wounded in '42
- Muetzelburg was killed as you mentioned
- Cremer of U-333 was wounded in '42
- Neubert of U-167 was wounded in '43
- Saar of U-957 was killed
- Reeder of U-214 was wounded in '43
- Zetzsche of U-591 was wounded in '43
- Lauzemis of U-68 was wounded in '43
- Hartmann of U-441 was wounded in '43 (along with every other officer)
- Markworth of U-66 was wounded in '43
- Kluth of U-377 was wounded in '43
- Techand of U-731 was wounded in '43
- Krueger of U-631 broke his hand in '43
- Zschech of U-505 killed himself
- Heinrich of U-960 was wounded in '44
- Leu of U-921 was killed doing the same thing as Howard Gilmore on the U.S. side....saved his boat by getting everyone down the hatch but was too wounded to make it down himself and so told them to "take her down" without him.
- von Roithberg of U-989 was wounded in '44
- Heinrich of U-299 was wounded in '44
- Riekeberg of U-637 killed himself after being wounded in '45
- Bungards of U-3012 was wounded and later died during training
- Wachter of U-2503 was killed in '45
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This list is a
bit misleading... as it includes suicides, deaths by accidents some of which occurred while ashore or during training activities and
injuries while at sea.
The criteria as I understand it to be is:
Commander of the boat
Died or was
killed at sea on a combat mission leaving the rest of the crew to return to base on their own (with an acting commander)
That list should look more like this IMHO
- Muetzelburg was killed as you mentioned
- Saar of U-957 was killed
- Zschech of U-505 killed himself
- Leu of U-921 was killed doing the same thing as Howard Gilmore on the U.S. side....saved his boat by getting everyone down the hatch but was too wounded to make it down himself and so told them to "take her down" without him.
- Riekeberg of U-637 killed himself after being wounded in '45
- Wachter of U-2503 was killed in '45