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U-869
Most
recent discovery of a U-boat, whose actual location and fate underscore the
uncertainties of World War II submarine warfare.
Type: IX C/40
Built: Deschimag AG Weser, Bremen
Keel laid: 5 April 1943
Launched: 5 October 1943
Commissioned: 26 January 1944
Commander: KL Hellmut Neuerburg
Fate: Originally believed to have been lost off Casablanca on 28 February 1945
by depth-charge attacks by the destroyer USS Fowler and the French
sub-chaser L'Indiscret. The positive identification of her
remains about 60 miles east of the New Jersey coast indicates she never
received the change in orders diverting her to the Gibraltar approaches and was
possibly sunk by one of her own acoustic torpedoes.
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