U-boat losses by month and year

[GoldenRivet]

Using data i have researched on the internet i have made (well almost made it is a few days from completion) a google earth file which pinpoints the approximate position of every u-boat loss from September 1939 to May 1945.

Each U-boat is represented by a small placemark thumbtack, each wreck can be accessed one at a time OR you can bring up every boat for a specefic month or year.

Going through month by month it is staggaring the number of U-boat wrecks that dot the atlantic and even the gulf of mexico!

Each U-boat comes with a brief history and an explaination of what happened - for example: if you were to click the spot on the map that says "U-581"

you will see...

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U-581

Sunk 2 Feb, 1942 in the mid-Atlantic south-west of the Azores, by the British destroyer HMS Westcott. 4 dead and 41 survivors. On 2 Feb, 1942 the U-581 was sunk near the coast of Pico Island, in front of a place called Guidaste. One of the officers, Ltn. Walter Sitek, managed to swim 6 km to shore where he was picked up by the locals. He then managed to pass through neutral Spain and make his way to Germany when he again went to sea on a U-boat. Oblt. Walter Sitek commanded 3 boats (U-17, U-981 and U-3005) during the rest of the war and survived the fighting. The rest of the crew, 37 men, were picked up by the British destroyer and taken to POW camp being finally released in 1947. This was the subs 2nd patrol, it claimed the sinking of 1 warship.

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or when you click the placemark for U-501 you will read....

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U-501
Sunk at 2330hrs on 10 Sept, 1941 in the Straits of Denmark south of Angmagsalik, Greenland, by depth charges and ramming from the Canadian corvettes HMCS Chambly and HMCS Moosejaw. Most of the crew escaped...11 dead and 37 survivors, 1 canadian was killed in the battle. After the first depth charge run U-501 surfaced right next to HMCS Moosejaw during her turn. Then something really amazing happened; the commander of U-501 leaped some 9 feet from his sub and onto the deck of the HMCS Moosejaw without even getting his feet wet! Fearing another boarding attempt the corvette opened the range and then closed rapidly, ramming the U-boat causing enough damage to cause her to start sinking. The Canadians attempted to board the boat but they found its insides totally trashed either from the depth charges or by the German crew. One Canadian did not manage to escape the boat as she sank. This was the U-501's only patrol, it destroyed 1 cargo ship.

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I hope to be finished with this project within the next 8 to 10 days, if anyone is interested in a copy of the file to use with Google Earth!

[bigboywooly]

I thought there was already one for Google Earth

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php?Number=551631

Among others




Best of luck though cant be an esy job to do

[GoldenRivet]

sweet, ill check that one out too, thanks

[Morts]

Originally Posted by bigboywooly

I thought there was already one for Google Earth

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php?Number=551631

Among others




Best of luck though cant be an esy job to do

d***....there is alot of dead sailors there

[GoldenRivet]

yes.... and unless we are looking at two different google earth files the one you posted only concentrates on one specific ocean, or one specific year... i may be wrong.

The file im making is every month from sep 39 to may 45, areas of the ocean are nearly blotted out with little placemarks!

I am up to the beginning of 1944 right now. have about a year worth of losses to post, should only take several more days.

edit: found the one with all the losses, but it gives no details of how the boat sank, or what its last radio reports indicated etc.

[bigboywooly]

:hmm: I dont think I have all the years checked in that pic

Not sure which ones I added now but warship losses are shown too such as the Bismark etc

[GoldenRivet]

thats cool, the one i looked at didnt have the flags... but i found the one that does.

lots of interesting history out there.

[bigboywooly]

There sure is

I used it a lot during GWX construction for various things

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Morts

[d***....there is alot of dead sailors there

Like, 30,000?

[Saukko]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Like, 30,000?

Plus about equal number of Allied sailors. And 3500 ships.

[Steel_Tomb]

...wow...I knew the u-boats suffered heavy losses towards the end of the war but man thats a lot of people that lost their lives! Shame on the Nazi leadership for continueing a war at sea that was lost years before, what a waste of life...

[bigboywooly]

Yes 30,000 out of 40,000

Makes it look worse like that
75% deaths

[HunterICX]

Originally Posted by bigboywooly

Yes 30,000 out of 40,000

Makes it look worse like that
75% deaths

30,000 of the total +-5,500,000 military deaths on the german side
makes it les then 1% about 0.6%

a bit more data

the German Naval army

Total serverd: +- 1,200,000
Total Killed/missing : +- 136,000
thats about +- 11%

[bigboywooly]

:rotfl:
Whats the German naval army Hunter ?

Those figures dont seem right somehow

The 75% refered to the Uboat arm alone

Edit

I assume you meant

In Kriegsmarine Service,
Total 1939-1945 1,500,000+
Kreigsmarine Desertions, 9.01.39 - 4.30.45: 150
Kriegsmarine KIA, 9.01.39 - 4.30.45: 65,029
Kriegsmarine MIA, 9.01.39 - 4.30.45: 105,256
Kriegsmarine WIA, 9.01.39 - 12.31.44: 21,002
Kriegsmarine Casualties, 1939-1945: 191,287+

http://www.feldgrau.com/stats.html

[HunterICX]

Originally Posted by bigboywooly

:rotfl:
Whats the German naval army Hunter ?

Those figures dont seem right somehow

The 75% refered to the Uboat arm alone

Edit

I assume you meant

In Kriegsmarine Service,
Total 1939-1945 1,500,000+
Kreigsmarine Desertions, 9.01.39 - 4.30.45: 150
Kriegsmarine KIA, 9.01.39 - 4.30.45: 65,029
Kriegsmarine MIA, 9.01.39 - 4.30.45: 105,256
Kriegsmarine WIA, 9.01.39 - 12.31.44: 21,002
Kriegsmarine Casualties, 1939-1945: 191,287+

http://www.feldgrau.com/stats.html

Raaaaah! back to my WW2 study books!