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The Men - The Commander listing

Herbert Uhlig

Kapitänleutnant (Crew 35)

Successes
1 ship sunk for a total of 5.242 GRT
1 warship sunk for a total of 291 tons (lost aboard transport ships)
1 ship damaged for a total of 5.848 GRT

Born

27 Feb, 1916

Chemnitz

Ranks

1 Jun, 1942

Kapitänleutnant

Decorations

U-boat Commands

U-527

2 Sep, 1942

23 Jul, 1943

2 patrols (138 days)

Patrol info

	U-boat	Departure		Arrival
1.	U-527	9 Feb, 1943	Kiel	12 Apr, 1943	Lorient	Patrol	63 days
2.	U-527	10 May, 1943	Lorient	23 Jul, 1943	Sunk	Patrol	75 days

Ships hit by Herbert Uhlig

Date	Boat	Name of ship	Tons	Nat.		Convoy	Fate *
8 Mar, 1943	U-527	Fort Lamy	5.242		br	SC-121
8 Mar, 1943	U-527	HMS LCT-2480 [Trans.]	291		br	SC-121
19 Mar, 1943	U-527	Mathew Luckenbach	5.848		am	HX-229	damaged
			11.381
* Unless otherwise noted the ships listed here were sunk. [Trans.] indicates the vessel was lost while being transported on another vessel.

Decorations and ranks information is in many cases not complete. If you can help on any of those missing that would be great.