U Boat Captain Henke

The tonnage figures and sometimes the number of ships sunk is still being debated among historians.

U boat captain henke.

U 515 was sunk by the us task group 22 3 commanded by daniel v. Gallery on 9 april 1944 and henke was captured along with about 40 of his crew. In february 1942 he commisioned his own boat u 515. Other u boat aces were u 515 werner henke u 37 victor oehrn and u 504 hans poske.

He was shot and killed while attempting to escape from the pow interrogation center in fort hunt virginia in the united states. Werner henke 13 may 1909 15 june 1944 was the commander of u 515 in the battle of the atlantic of world war ii. Over 40 000 pages on the officers the boats technology and the allied efforts to counter the u boat threat. Bargsten left u 99 in january 1941 and in march commissioned the u 563 on 27 03 1941 and during battle against convoy hg 75 he sank a freighter but unsuccessfully attacked a royal navy destroyer the pc 565.

The bdu the supreme commander of the kriegsmarine u boat arm ordered u 515 to return to the position of the sinking to find out the ship s destination about noon the u boat commander kapitänleutnant werner henke decided to rescue the ceramic s skipper. In heavy seas he sighted one of the lifeboats and its occupants waved to him. This is often due to convoy battles at night when an attacking wolfpack fired torpedoes into the convoy and two sometimes more. Werner henke had his first naval experience on board the battleships admiral scheer and schleswig holstein his first u boat was u 124 under the command of kapitänleutnant wilhelm schultz the last of his four patrols with the edelweissboot he completed under the later famous kapitänleutnant jochen mohr.