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Originally Posted by Aktungbby
Thanks for that interesting info! Interestingly, Your father's vessel, the Laertes, was the only one of Dutch registry of the 25 ships sunk by U109 and u-boot ace, Heinrich 'Ajax' Bleicherodt (152,320 tons). Bleicherodt, an old school officer, famously refused to wear his Knights Cross unless his IWO, Oblt.z.See Suhren, received one as well, he, having done the actual shooting. U109 did not fare well either. The IXB was sunk with all hands 4/may/1943 SW of Ireland by a Liberator...all hands lost under the command of Oblt.z.See Schramm after a second seven day patrol. Bleicherodt himself survived the war as KorvettenKapitän, chief of UbootFlotilla 22.  |
Yes thank you, I know al of the story!
Also on board was radioman Wolfgang Hirschfeld, he held a secret diary of the U-109!
He wrote a book with a part of the attack on the Leartes.
He went over to the U-234.
Her first and only mission into enemy territory consisted of the attempted delivery of
uranium oxide and German advanced weapons technology to the
Empire of Japan. After learning of Germany's
unconditional surrender, the
submarine's crew surrendered to the
United States on 14 May 1945.
There is a movie about the U-234.
Regards