List of all U-boats

U-669

Type

VIIC

 
Ordered20 Jan 1941
Laid down3 Nov 1941 Howaldtswerke Hamburg AG, Hamburg (werk 818)
Launched5 Oct 1942
Commissioned16 Dec 1942Oblt. Kurt Köhl
Commanders
16 Dec 1942 - 7 Sep 1943  Oblt. (R) Kurt Köhl
Career
2 patrols
16 Dec 1942-31 May 1943  5. Flottille (training)
1 Jun 1943-7 Sep 1943  1. Flottille (active service)
SuccessesNo ships sunk or damaged
Fate

Listed as missing in the Bay of Biscay on 8 Sept, 1943.

There is no explanation for its loss. 52 dead (all hands lost). (Axel Niestlé, November 1995).

View the 2 war patrols

Previously recorded fate

  • Sunk 7 Sept 1943 in the Bay of Biscay northwest of Cape Ortegal, Spain, in position 43.36N, 10.13W, by depth charges from a Canadian aircraft (RCAF-Sqdn. 407). (Postwar assessment)
    Notes. This attack was actually against U-584 inflicting no damages.

Attacks on this boat

25 Jul 1943
A man from U-669 died on 25 July but I do not have the details. The boat was at this time in St. Nazaire. [Bootsmaat Erich Bergner]

1 recorded attack on this boat.

Men lost from the boat

25 Jul 1943
A man from U-669 died on 25 July but I do not have the details. The boat was at this time in St. Nazaire. [Bootsmaat Erich Bergner]

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


Media links


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

Wynn, Kenneth


Hitler's U-boat War, Vol II

Blair, Clay


German U-Boat Losses During World War II

Niestle, Axel