classic photograph.

[flag4]

great photo.
take some time to look at their faces....especially Endrass.
i have the feeling he was a good man.

some thoughts are welcome..

[LemonA]

I dont know what was behind his death but it looks like he tried to attack one or two lonely destroyers in the middle of the atlantic.
A dumb decision from him which costs him and 40 others their lives.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by LemonA

I dont know what was behind his death but it looks like he tried to attack one or two lonely destroyers in the middle of the atlantic.
A dumb decision from him which costs him and 40 others their lives.

According to what I've read Endrass was attacking a convoy, not "one or two lonely destroyers".
He attacked HG-76, sinking one merchant, and was killed while trying to attack the convoy a second time.
http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/1231.html

[flag4]

Originally Posted by LemonA

I dont know what was behind his death but it looks like he tried to attack one or two lonely destroyers in the middle of the atlantic.
A dumb decision from him which costs him and 40 others their lives.

i just can not imagine Endrass being 'dumb.'

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

According to what I've read Endrass was attacking a convoy, not "one or two lonely destroyers".
He attacked HG-76, sinking one merchant, and was killed while trying to attack the convoy a second time.
http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/1231.html

Eric Topp writes a heart felt piece about his great friend Endrass in 'In Memoriam Engelbert Endrass.' Castor mourns Pollux.

this piece with many other excellent essays can be found in Silent Hunters: German U Boat Commanders of World War Two. edited by Theodore P. Savas.

[Jimbuna]

The long run of success Endrass had seen both as 1WO of U-47 and skipper of U-46 was then to come to a sudden end. On his first patrol as commander of U-567, he ran into trouble north-east of the Azores in the shape of the British attack vessel HMS Deptford. Succumbing to the Deptford's depth charge attack, U-567 went down with all hands on 21 December 1941.

http://www.u47.org/english/u47_cre.asp?member=endrass

[HW3]

Sunk 21 Dec, 1941 in the North Atlantic north-east of the Azores, in position 44.02N, 20.10W, by depth charges from the British sloop HMS Deptford and the British corvette HMS Samphire. 47 dead (all hands lost).

http://www.uboat.net/boats/u567.htm

And it was a convoy (HG76) that he was attacking as both ships listed as attacking U-567 are listed as escorting that convoy at that time. U-108 attacked the same convoy on 19 Dec, 1941.