Category: U-Boat Patrols
U-84 under Horst Upfhoff patrolled New England 6 days, sank Nemanja (Yugoslav) off Cape Sable NS in April 1942
U-85 under Eberhard Greger patrolled New England 3 days April 1942, was sunk off Hatteras days later, all killed
U-203 under Rolf Mützelburg patrolled New England 4 days in April 1942 without sinking ships there, later killed while diving off sub
U-571 under Helmut Möhlmann patrolled New England 5 days in March-April 1942, sank the British ship Hertford there
U-754 under Johannes (Hans) Oestermann patrolled 4 days off New England, sank no ships there
by Eric Wiberg
U-552 under ace Erich Topp patrolled New England 6 days in March 1942, sank no ships there
U-373 under Paul-Karl Loeser patrolled New England 10 days, sank the Thursobank south of Nantucket 22 March 1942
U-71 under Walter Flachsenberg sank 4 ships in and near region March and April 1942
U-588 under Victor Vogel, patrolled New England 4 days March 1942 no ships sunk there
U-404 under Otto von Bülow spent 6 days in New England w/o sinking any Allied ships in March 1942
U-94 under Otto Ites patrolled New England 5 days in March 1942 without sinking Allied ships there
U-96 under Lehmann-Willenbrock patrolled New England 9 days with no targets in Feb/March 1942
U-578 under Rehwinkel patrolled New England 4 days Feb. 1942 without result, sank USS Jacob Jones days later
U-108 under Klaus Scholtz patrolled off New England south of Nantucket February 1942 without result
U-107 under Harald Gelhaus spend 6 unproductive days on southern cusp of New England waters in Jan & Feb 1942
U-103 under Werner Winter spent 11 days off New England, Jan/Feb 1942 – no ships sunk there
U-106 under Hermann Rasch spent 7 days off New England Jan/Feb 1942 but sank nothing
U-654 under Forster, 5-day incursion into New England, no ships sunk there
U-130 under Ernst Kals spent 11 days in New England waters Jan-Feb 1942, sinking Norwegian tanker Alexandra Hoegh
U-109 under Heinrich “Ajax” Bleichrodt sank the Thirlby off Cape Sable, NS, Canada during a 12-day incursion in the Gulf of Maine in January 1942
U-125 under Ulrich Folkers’ fruitless 11-day patrol off Nantucket in Jan. 1942, scoured the coast of Siasconset, Mass.
U-123 under Hardegen 1st patrol off New England of WWII Jan 12 1942 sank the Norness south of Block Island, barely escaped ramming by Kosmos II later
U-759 under Rudolf Friedrich June 1943 Bahamas patrol
by Eric Wiberg
U-753 under Alfred Manhardt von Mannstein May 1942 Bahamas patrol
by Eric Wiberg