Favorite Sub Commander

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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.