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Post by keyboy on Mar 5, 2017 10:32:02 GMT
February and March 1943
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Post by keyboy on Mar 21, 2017 18:35:39 GMT
U-Boat Name and ID Number: Werwolf U-73 Successful Patrol: SUNK Number of Freighters Sank: 0 Number of Tankers Sank: 1 Number of Capital Ships Sank: 0 Total Tonnage Destroyed: 11900
On 4/14/43, U-73 Werwolf was lost with all hands after a successful wolfpack attack on an allied convoy. The HMS Astral was destroyed by a spread of torpedoes approximately 25 minutes before the Werwolf broke apart under concentrated depth charge attacks. One other tanker was damaged but manged to survive the attack.
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