U Boat Captain Henke

The list of most successful u boat commanders contains the top scoring german u boat commanders in the two world wars based on their total tonnage sunk.

U boat captain henke.

Joachim schepke 8 march 1912 17 march 1941 was a german u boat commander during world war ii he was the seventh recipient of the knight s cross of the iron cross with oak leaves it was germany s highest military decoration at the time of its presentation to joachim schepke. In heavy seas he sighted one of the lifeboats and its occupants waved to him. U 515 was sunk by the us task group 22 3 commanded by daniel v. In february 1942 he commisioned his own boat u 515.

Gallery on 9 april 1944 and henke was captured along with about 40 of his crew. The tonnage figures and sometimes the number of ships sunk is still being debated among historians. Over 40 000 pages on the officers the boats technology and the allied efforts to counter the u boat threat. The u boat war in world war two kriegsmarine 1939 1945 and world war one kaiserliche marine 1914 1918 and the allied efforts to counter the threat.

Other u boat aces were u 515 werner henke u 37 victor oehrn and u 504 hans poske. 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. 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. This is often due to convoy battles at night when an attacking wolfpack fired torpedoes into the convoy and two sometimes more.