U-271

Type

VIIC

 
Ordered20 Jan 1941
Laid down 21 Oct 1941 Bremer Vulkan-Vegesacker Werft, Bremen-Vegesack (werk 36)
Launched29 Jul 1942
Commissioned23 Sep 1942Kptlt. Curt Barleben
Commanders
23 Sep 1942 - 28 Jan 1944  Kptlt. Curt Barleben
Career3 patrols 23 Sep 1942 - 31 May 1943  8. Flottille (training)
1 Jun 1943 - 28 Jan 1944  1. Flottille (front boat)
SuccessesNo ships sunk or damaged
Fate

Sunk 28 Jan, 1944 west of Limerick, in position 53.15N, 15.52W, by depth charges from a US Liberator aircraft (VB-103/E). 51 dead (all hands lost).

View the 3 war patrols

Attacks on this boat

24 Jun 1943
Aircraft attack, aircraft shot down:

This aircraft was apparently US Navy VPB-103 Squadron. All aircrew perished.

(Sources: http://uboatwaffe.net/ops/boat.cgi?boat=271)

21 Oct 1943
While serving as a Flak boat U-271 was attacked by two Avengers from USS Core on 21 Oct and one man from its crew died.

2 recorded attacks on this boat.

Men lost from the boat

21 Oct 1943
While serving as a Flak boat U-271 was attacked by two Avengers from USS Core on 21 Oct and one man from its crew died.

  Related: For more info on such losses see - Men lost from U-boats -


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U-Boat Operations of the Second World War - Vol 2

Wynn, Kenneth


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Books dealing with this subject include:

German U-Boat Losses During World War II. Niestle, Axel, 1998.
Hitler's U-boat War. Blair, Clay, 1996.
Hitler's U-boat War, Vol II. Blair, Clay, 1998.
U-Boat Operations of the Second World War - Vol 1. Wynn, Kenneth, 1998.
U-Boat Operations of the Second World War - Vol 2. Wynn, Kenneth, 1998.