I like a thread like this, it keeps us awake !
5th campagn started in 1939.
Currently Kapitän zur See Otto Chisum
U-178 Type IX/D2
12th Flotillia based at Bordeaux.
After 18 patrols 507 977 t (497224/10753/27 aircrafts/ 3 men lost)
In the 19th patrol, actually june 1944 in South-Atlantic, 200 miles North-East of Natal and on the way home with 3 torpedos onboard.
