Brentano,
Thanks for the clarification, appreciated.
Excellent feedback!
What I would need to make the amount of wounded/dead crew relevant is details of each battle. For all I know the 19 men dead could have occurred over 5 attacks lasting 3 hours or, it could have been done in 3 minutes by an over zealous Swordfish bi-plane.
U-Flak Histories….
U-211 never had any aircraft successes not last any men. Was twice successfully attacked by aircraft, 20/02/43 by a Liberator in the Bay of Biscay, returned to base and sunk at night by a Wellington.
U-256 never last a man and had successes before being converted to a U-flak.
2 Sep, 1942
(British Whitley aircraft, Squadron 77/H)
11 Mar, 1944
(Canadian Wellington aircraft, Squadron 407/H)
The aircraft seems to have crashed on its own during preparations for the attack run.
19 Mar, 1944
(British Liberator aircraft, Squadron 224/F)
The aircraft smashed into the sea 500m away from the boat and exploded.
7 Jun, 1944
(British Liberator aircraft, Squadron 224/M)
U-271 as U-flak again sailed from Brest on 02/10/43. On 21/10/43, a single Avenger from USS Core attacked and badly damaged the U-271 with 1 crewman killed, U-271 dived to escape. Some say there were 2 Avengers.
Sunk 28 Jan, 1944 west of Limerick, in position 53.15N, 15.52W, by depth charges from a US Liberator aircraft (VB-103/E)
U-441 as U-flak on 24 May, 1943 U-Flak 1 encountered British aircraft in map-square BF 4971. A few hours later there was a fight with a British Sunderland which U-Flak 1 shot down. The British pilot dropped his bombs just before his aircraft crashed into the sea, some of which fell near U-Flak 1. (It is said that the pilot had received the British Victoria Cross for sinking six U-boats.) U-Flak 1 returned to Brest due to damages.
U-441 as U-flak again sailed from Brest on 8/07/43. On 12/07/43 she was attacked by Beaufighters 'A', 'B' and 'V' of Sq 248 and after a few minutes ended up badly damaged with heavy casualties (10 men dead, 13 wounded) in spite of the initial heavy AA fire. U-441 returned on 13/07/43.
Sunk on 8 June, 1944 in the English Channel in approximate position 48.27N, 05.47W by depth charges from a British Liberator aircraft (Sqdn 224/G).
U-621 while serving as a Flak boat on 13 Jan U-621 was attacked by a Liberator (RAF Sqdn 59/A) and suffered 1 man killed and 6 wounded. Matrosengefreiter Heinz Thomas was mortally wounded and later buried at sea. The commander decided to abort the patrol. U-621 took ten days to limp back to Brest.
U-953 before conversion to a U-Flak (Oct 43) was attacked by a liberator on the 09/07/43 and one crewman killed and 2 wounded.
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