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U-515
A
highly successful late-war U-boat that, from September 1942 to April 1944, sank
24 merchantmen, totaling 144,864 tons, and two warships. The same task group
that captured U-505 sank U-515.
Type: IX C
Keel laid: 7 May 1941
Launched: 2 December 1941
Commissioned: 21 February 1942
Commander: KK Werner Henke
Fate: Sunk following attacks by naval aircraft from carrier USS
Guadalcanal and depth charges and gunfire from destroyer escorts USS
Pillsbury, USS Pope, and USS Chatelain southeast of the
Azores, 9 April 1944. Sixteen crewmen were lost in the sinking; the remaining
44 were rescued and made prisoners of war. Commander Henke was killed 15 June
1944 in a suicidal escape attempt at Ft. Hunt, Virginia.
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