Favorite Sub Commander

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

His boat U-99 was attacked and damaged by two British destroyers, HMS Vanoc and HMS Walker. He was unable to submerge, the U-Boat was scuttled, and along with all his crew he was taken prisoner.

Yeah, he was lucky. Prien and Schepke were lost around the same time period.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Collin Dougherty

U-99 right?
Why wasent he imprisoned?
He continued to serve after WWII right?
And even before?

Kretschmer commanded U-99 for almost a year, from April 1940 until he and most of his crew were captured in March 1941 (from late 1937 until April 1940 he'd been in command of U-23).

He was indeed imprisoned, serving out the remainder of the war as a British POW in England and then Canada. He was not allowed to return to Germany a free man until late in 1947 and joined the post-war German navy in the mid-1950s. He retired as a Flotillenadmiral.

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

Kretschmer commanded U-99 for almost a year, from April 1940 until he and most of his crew were captured in March 1941 (from late 1937 until April 1940 he'd been in command of U-23).

He was indeed imprisoned, serving out the remainder of the war as a British POW in England and then Canada. He was not allowed to return to Germany a free man until late in 1947 and joined the post-war German navy in the mid-1950s. He retired as a Flotillenadmiral.

It's funny, coz, there was this girl in highschool who had the same last name (Kretschmer), so I always bugged her if she was related to him. She had never heard of him and no, not related.

[nikimcbee]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_W._Morton

[Feuer Frei!]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

I would H. Lehmann-Willenbrock but I know my opinion of him is mostly a result of his semi-fictional portrayal in Das Boot so it really doesn't count.

Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock
Captain of U-96, sailing out of Kiel for his first patrol on the 5th. of December that year, Heinrich sank five ships, and put a torpedo into the British 10,746 ton ship Pendrecht. On the following patrol, over two days, the 16th. and 17th. of January in 1941, U-96 sank two British ships, Oropesa and Almeda Star, both of whom were 14,000 ton vessels. All up, this Captain, and his command, sank 25 ships with a total tonnage of 183,253 tons.
He was certainly considered an Ace