The Twilight of the U-boatsIn essence, this is the story of U-223, commanded by Karl-J'rgen W'ehter from the time of her commissioning in Kiel in January 1943 through a murderous career to her eventual but dramatic demise in the Mediterranean in March 1944. At the same time, the book covers the declining fortunes of the U-boat arm as a whole from early 1943 when it seemed invincible and seriously threatened the Allies with defeat to the end of the war |
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Atlantic Shooting Gallery | 1 |
Rendezvous at Cape Farewell | 29 |
The Hardest Battle | 44 |
Copyright | |
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abandon ship ahead aircraft Allied shipping Asdic astern attack B-Dienst beam Biscay Blencathra boat Boyle Cape Cape Farewell Captain cargo coast Coastguard cutter conning tower convoy corvettes course crew damaged dark deck degrees depth charges destroyer diesels dived Dönitz Dorchester enemy engine-room engines Escanaba explosion fire Flower-class force Forstner four full speed Gerlach German Gibraltar Godetia guns Haudegen heavy Hesperus HMS Hesperus horizon hull hydrophone hydrophone effect join Kapitänleutnant Karl Wächter Kelbling knots Laforey lifeboats light lost Macintyre merchant ships merchantmen metres miles minutes Narsarssuak night North Atlantic Norwegian Oberleutnant ordered pack patrol periscope periscope depth picked radar radio reported rescue ship running sailed sank sight signal sinking St John's St Nazaire starboard steamer steaming submarine submerged sunk surface survivors tank landing ships tanker tanks target tons torpedo tubes Type VIIC U-boats visibility Wächter weather wind