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Originally Posted by StarTrekMike
What type of boat was the U-109 in real life?...any online sources I should read about?
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You can read this all in "Secret diary of a U-Boat" by Wolfgang Hirschfeldt. He was radio operator on U-109 under both Fischer and Bleichrodt and left the boat before the boat was sunk. I find it much better written than the books of most U-Boat skippers. Also quite interesting to note is that he describes many episodes that mark U-109 as some sort of unlucky boat where the crew was making fun "everything that can go wrong will go wrong on U-109"
It also seems he didn't think very highly of Chief Engineer Weber who he said "is useless at keeping the boat at depth".