U Boat 977

Author : Heinz Schaeffer
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784382520

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U-Boat 977 by Heinz Schaeffer Pdf

When it was first published in 1953, opinions were sharply divided between those who deplored the apparent extolling of a vicious form of warfare, and this who found in Heinz Schaeffer’s account a revealing picture of the German Navy’s training and methods. U-Boat 977 was the German submarine that escaped to Argentina at the end of World War Two. This epic journey started from Bergen in Norway, where in April 1945 it was temporarily based, and took three and a half months to complete. Because of the continuing Allied naval activity the commander decided to make the first part of the journey underwater. Before surfacing near the west coast of Africa U-977 had spent a remarkable sixty-six days submerged. Heinz Schaeffer, the commander of U-977 wrote a full account of his career that culminated in this last command. It depicts the grueling aspects of a submariner’s life aboard a vessel that was subjected to harsh conditions of the sea and oceans. As an experienced commander Schaeffer took part in many of the decisive U-boat operations in the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean. In the final months of the war, and in common with most surviving U-boat commanders, Schaeffer and his crew came under constant attacks from Allied aircraft and surface ships. The final part of U-Boat 977 is Schaeffer’s account of the journey to Argentina and lays to rest some of the more fanciful sorties that followed its arrival.

Author : Heinz Schäffer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798646847226

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U-boat 977 by Heinz Schäffer Pdf

U-boat 977 is a terrible, heroic record from the other side of the Battle of the Atlantic. It is a tale of Allied ships sunk, of attack, of counterattack, and finally of defeat of the U-boats. It was written by one of the few desperate men who survived that defeat. Completely authentic, intensely dramatic, it is a personal record of Hitler's most insidious and effective military arm. It begins when the author was a young man starting his training for U-boat service, and carries through the sinkings of Allied ships and the miraculous escapes that brought him his fame. It tells of our growing anti-U-boat war and the horror of the coming of "the worst enemy"-radar. And finally he recounts his last incredible dash across the Atlantic, with its stretch of sixty-six days under the sea, to surrender in the Argentine and face the charge that U-977 had been Hitler's escape ship.Here, also, both in the words and between the lines is a view of the Nazi military machine as seen by one of its human cogs-a moving, terrible, and valuable picture presented in terms of dramatic action.

Author : Heinz Schaeffer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OCLC:1360561

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U-Boat 977 by Heinz Schaeffer Pdf

Author : Heinz Schaeffer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Schaeffer, Heinz
ISBN : STANFORD:36105080732527

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U-boat 977 by Heinz Schaeffer Pdf

Author : Heinz Schaeffer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0905778871

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U-Boat 977 by Heinz Schaeffer Pdf

Author : Lawrence Paterson
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848320376

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Black Flag by Lawrence Paterson Pdf

On the eve of Germany's surrender in May 1945, Grossadmiral Karl Dönitz commanded thousands of loyal and active men of the U-boat service. Still fully armed and unbroken in morale, enclaves of these men occupied bases stretching from Norway to France, where cadres of U-boat men fought on in ports that defied besieging Allied troops to the last. At sea U-boats still operated on a war footing around Britain, the coasts of the United States and as far as Malaya. Following the agreement to surrender, these large formations needed to be disarmed - often by markedly inferior forces - and the boats at sea located and escorted into the harbours of their erstwhile enemies. Neither side knew entirely what to expect, and many of the encounters were tense; in some cases there were unsavoury incidents, and stories of worse. For many Allied personnel it was their first glimpse of the dreaded U-boat menace and both sides were forced to exercise considerable restraint to avoid compromising the terms of Germany's surrender. One of the last but most dramatic acts of the naval war, the story of how the surrender was handled has never been treated at length before. This book uncovers much new material about the process itself and the ruthless aftermath for both the crews and their boats.

Author : Rainer Busch,Hans-Joachim Röll
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023636801

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German U-boat Commanders of World War II by Rainer Busch,Hans-Joachim Röll Pdf

Details the service records of some 1,400 officers of the German Kriegsmarine known to have commanded a U-boat between the commissioning of U-1 in June 1935, and the final surrender of U-977 to Argentina in August 1945.

Author : Franz Kurowski
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1399014315

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U-48: The Most Successful U-Boat of the Second World War by Franz Kurowski Pdf

In August 1939, U-48, commanded by 'Vaddi' Schultze, took up a waiting position around England. Schultze showed himself to be a notable humanitarian: he addressed signals to Churchill giving positions of ship sinkings so that crews could be saved. By 1 August 1941 this most successful boat of World War II, had sunk 56 merchant ships one corvette.

Author : Heinz Schäffer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OCLC:1360561

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U-Boat 977 by Heinz Schäffer Pdf

Author : Jordan Vause
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612513805

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U-Boat Ace by Jordan Vause Pdf

An exceptional figure in the history of the German Navy, Wolfgang Luth was one of only seven men in the Wehrmacht to win Germany's highest combat decoration, the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds. At one time or another he operated in almost every theater of the undersea war, from Norway to the Indian Ocean, and became the second most successful German U-boat ace in World War II, sinking more than 220,000 tons of merchant shipping. A master in the art of military leadership, Luth was the youngest man to be appointed to the rank of captain and the youngest to become commandant of the German Naval Academy. Nevertheless, his accomplishments were overshadowed by those of other great aces, such as Prien, Kretschmer, and Topp. The publication of this book in hardcover in 1990 marked the first comprehensive study of Luth's life. Jordan Vause corrects the long neglect by providing an entertaining and authoritative biography that places the ace in the context of the war at sea. This new paperback edition includes corrections and additional information collected by the author over the past decade.

Author : Kittel & Graf
Publisher : Edizioni R.E.I.
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9782372971768

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History of the U-Boot by Kittel & Graf Pdf

U-Boot is the German term to refer broadly to submarines, and is short for Unterseeboot, literally "submarine boat". The objectives of the U-boat campaigns in both wars were the convoys carrying supplies from the US to Europe. The term U-Boot, followed by a number, such as U-Boot 47 indicates a specific vessel, while U-Boot Type II a particular class, the only U-boats that can be considered true submarines, and submarines, are those that belong to the Type XXI and Type XXIII. During the Second World War, the attacks of the U-boats were the main component of the Battle of the North Eastern, which lasted until the end of the war. During the early stages of the war and immediately after the entry of the United States, the U-boats were extremely effective in the destruction of merchant allies. Improvements in tactical convoys, sonar, the depth charges, the deciphering of the Enigma code used by the Germans and the range of escort aircraft served to turn the fate against the U-boats. At the end of the U-boat fleet suffered extremely heavy losses, losing 789 units (three British submarines captured) of 1157 (of which 25 Allied captured) and about 30,000 sailors on a total of 50.000. The German U-boats and Japanese submarines and Italian sank around 2,828 Allied ships, for a total of about 15 million tons. Between 1939 and 1942 the U-boats also bombed the oil fields of Florida and Americans of many coastal areas causing extensive damage; when the British found a way to decipher Enigma allies were able to predict the movements, yet the Germans did not interrupt the use of U-boats in the Atlantic. During World War II, the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) produced different types of U-boats, as the technology improved. In this volume are indicated in detail the characteristics of all the classes of U-Boot, from Type I to Type XXIII, in addition to the history of the U-boats that made the protagonists during the Second World War.

Author : Léonce Peillard
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013791002

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The Laconia Affair by Léonce Peillard Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Heinz J. Schaefer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OCLC:2350030

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U-Boat 977 by Heinz J. Schaefer Pdf

Author : Heinz Schaeffer
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784382513

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U-Boat 977 by Heinz Schaeffer Pdf

When it was first published in 1953, opinions were sharply divided between those who deplored the apparent extolling of a vicious form of warfare, and this who found in Heinz Schaeffer’s account a revealing picture of the German Navy’s training and methods. U-Boat 977 was the German submarine that escaped to Argentina at the end of World War Two. This epic journey started from Bergen in Norway, where in April 1945 it was temporarily based, and took three and a half months to complete. Because of the continuing Allied naval activity the commander decided to make the first part of the journey underwater. Before surfacing near the west coast of Africa U-977 had spent a remarkable sixty-six days submerged. Heinz Schaeffer, the commander of U-977 wrote a full account of his career that culminated in this last command. It depicts the grueling aspects of a submariner’s life aboard a vessel that was subjected to harsh conditions of the sea and oceans. As an experienced commander Schaeffer took part in many of the decisive U-boat operations in the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean. In the final months of the war, and in common with most surviving U-boat commanders, Schaeffer and his crew came under constant attacks from Allied aircraft and surface ships. The final part of U-Boat 977 is Schaeffer’s account of the journey to Argentina and lays to rest some of the more fanciful sorties that followed its arrival.

Author : E. B. Gasaway
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781497628397

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Grey Wolf, Grey Sea by E. B. Gasaway Pdf

The inside story of life aboard the deadly Nazi U-Boat that sank forty-nine ships. The history of one of World War II’s most successful submarines, U-124, is chronicled in Grey Wolf, Grey Sea, from its few defeats to a legion of victories. Kapitanleutnant Jochen Mohr commanded his German submarine and navigated it through the treacherous waters of one of the most destructive, savage wars the world has known.