U Boat Captain Henke

U 515 was sunk by the us task group 22 3 commanded by daniel v.

U boat captain henke. 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. He was shot and killed while attempting to escape from the pow interrogation center in fort hunt virginia in the united states.

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. In february 1942 he commisioned his own boat u 515. 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 tonnage figures and sometimes the number of ships sunk is still being debated among historians.

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. Werner henke 13 may 1909 15 june 1944 was the commander of u 515 in the battle of the atlantic of world war ii. 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. Other u boat aces were u 515 werner henke u 37 victor oehrn and u 504 hans poske.