U-299

Type

VIIC/41

 
Ordered23 Mar 1942
Laid down1 Mar 1943 Bremer Vulkan-Vegesacker Werft, Bremen-Vegesack (werk 64)
Launched6 Nov 1943
Commissioned15 Dec 1943Oblt. Helmuth Heinrich
Commanders
15 Dec 1943 - 9 Aug 1944  Oblt. Helmuth Heinrich
9 Aug 1944 - 3 Sep 1944  Oblt. Dietrich Zehle
3 Sep 1944 - 31 Oct 1944  Oblt. Helmuth Heinrich
1 Nov 1944 - 8 May 1945  Oblt. Bernhard Emde
Career
6 patrols
15 Dec 1943-31 Jul 1944  8. Flottille (training)
1 Aug 1944-4 Nov 1944  11. Flottille (front boat)
5 Nov 1944-28 Feb 1945  13. Flottille (front boat)
1 Mar 1945-8 May 1945  14. Flottille (front boat)
SuccessesNo ships sunk or damaged
Fate

Transferred from Bergen, Norway to Loch Ryan, Scotland on 29 May, 1945 for Operation Deadlight.

Operation Deadlight (post-war Allied operation, info)
Sunk on 4 Dec, 1945 in position 55.38N, 07.54W.

View the 6 war patrols

Wolfpack operations

U-299 operated with the following Wolfpacks during its career:
   Stier (25 Nov 1944 - 24 Dec 1944)

Attacks on this boat

16 Jul 1944
The commander was wounded in an aircraft attack. The boat, part of a defence line off Norway, reached Bergen 4 days later.

1 recorded attack on this boat.

Men lost from the boat

16 Jul 1944
The commander was wounded in an aircraft attack. The boat, part of a defence line off Norway, reached Bergen 4 days later.

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


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You can view it here. (The emblem on the left is not the emblem for this boat).



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.