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U-405
Engaged
in a death duel with an American destroyer, each vessel sinking the other in a
battle later fictionalized in the novel and film The Enemy Below.
Type: VII C
Built: Danziger Werft, Danzig
Keel laid: 8 July 1940
Launched: 4 June 1941
Commissioned: 17 September 1941
Commander: KK Rolf-Heinrich Hopmann
Fate: Sank after the destroyer USS Borie depth-charged, rammed, and
struck her by gunfire north of the Azores, 1 November 1943. Following ramming,
both warships remained temporarily locked together, and some fighting took
place at close quarters before the U-boat broke away and sank with all 49
hands. USS Borie succumbed the next day from damage suffered, with the
loss of 27 officers and seamen.
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