Interview w real U802 kaleun: crazy patrol into NY

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do you remember those weird patrol grids bdu sent you in vanilla SH3??

Helmut Schmockel, captain of U802 was sent out to make patrol harbor of New York
lmao

listen to him here
http://uboat.net/men/interviews/files/schmoeckel.wav



U-boat Commands

U-80213 Dec, 1943 - 11 May, 1945 4 patrols (243 days)
From the beginning of the war until July 1942, Helmut Schmoeckel served on the cruiser Admiral Hipper. After the U-boat training and a few months as I WO he became commander of U-802 in December 1943. He operated mostly in the North Atlantic and in Canadian waters. He surrendered his U-boat on 11 May, 1945 in Loch Eriboll.
After the war Helmut Schmoeckel wrote the book Menschlichkeit im Seekrieg (Humanity in the Naval War), in which he described instances of German naval crews giving aid to shipwrecked Allies.