Type | VIIC | |||||||||
| Ordered | 20 Jan 1941 | |||||||||
| Laid down | 4 Sep 1941 | Bremer Vulkan-Vegesacker Werft, Bremen-Vegesack (werk 33) | ||||||||
| Launched | 9 Jun 1942 | |||||||||
| Commissioned | 29 Jul 1942 | Oblt. Ernst Heydemann | ||||||||
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| Career 1 patrol |
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| Successes | 1 ship sunk, total tonnage 14,547 GRT 3 warships sunk, total tonnage 873 tons (lost aboard transport ships) | |||||||||
| Fate | Sunk 19 Feb, 1943 in the Bay of Biscay west of Nantes, France, in position 47.03N, 05.56W, by depth charges from a British Wellington aircraft (Sqdn. 172/B). 44 dead (all hands lost). | |||||||||
Wolfpack operations
U-268 operated with the following Wolfpacks during its career:
Habicht (10 Jan 1943 - 15 Jan 1943)
Falke (15 Jan 1943 - 19 Jan 1943)
Haudegen (19 Jan 1943 - 2 Feb 1943)
Nordsturm (2 Feb 1943 - 9 Feb 1943)
Haudegen (9 Feb 1943 - 10 Feb 1943)
Attacks on this boat
19 Feb 1943
The sinking of U-268The inbound boat was sunk in a Leigh Light attack by the British Wellington Mk.VIII MP505 (172 Sqdn RAF/B, pilot F/O G.D. Lundon) in the Bay of Biscay.
1 recorded attack on this boat.
Men lost from the boat
22 Jan 1943
Leutnant zur See Wilhem Deutsch was lost by washing overboard. (When U-268 was sunk four weeks later only 44 men were killed, instead of the normally reported figure of 45 men.)
Related: For more info on such losses see - Men lost from U-boats -
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