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Map of Lost U-Boats
by Timothy Mulligan
frameless version
U-869, the submarine profiled in the NOVA program "Hitler's Lost
Sub," was just one of the more than 1,100 Unterseeboote, or
U-boats, sunk, scuttled, captured, or otherwise lost to German forces during
World War II. Here, naval historian Timothy Mulligan describes 25 of the most
historically significant U-boats. Click on the map labels and plunge into the
fascinating and often tragic histories of some of Germany's most notorious "sea
wolves."
Notes
KzS = Kapitän zur See (Captain)
KK = Korvettenkapitän (Lt. Commander)
KL = Kapitänleutnant (Lieutenant)
OL = Oberleutnant zur See (Lieutenant, j.g.)
Lt.z.S.d.R. = Leutnant zur See der Reserve (Ensign in the Reserves)
Admiral Karl Dönitz was head of Germany's U-boat service
A snorkel is a tube that houses air intake and exhaust pipes for use
with a submarine's diesel engine while the sub is submerged
Timothy Mulligan is a German naval historian and archivist at the National
Archives and Records Administration. His most recent book is Neither Sharks
Nor Wolves: The Men of Nazi Germany's U-Boat Arm 1939-1945 (Naval Institute
Press, 1999).
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