Horst Dieterichs
Kapitänleutnant (Crew 34)
| Successes 1 ship sunk for a total of 7.452 GRT 3 ships damaged for a total of 13.285 GRT |
| Born | 1 Mar, 1912 | Naumburg, Saale |
| Died | 18 Feb, 1944 | North Atlantic |
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Ranks
Decorations |
Patrol info
| U-boat | Departure | Arrival | |||||
| 1. | U-406 | 4 Apr, 1942 | Kiel | 19 Apr, 1942 | St. Nazaire | Patrol, | 16 days |
| 2. | U-406 | 5 May, 1942 | St. Nazaire | 1 Jul, 1942 | St. Nazaire | Patrol, | 58 days |
| 3. | U-406 | 9 Aug, 1942 | St. Nazaire | 8 Oct, 1942 | St. Nazaire | Patrol, | 61 days |
| 4. | U-406 | 14 Dec, 1942 | St. Nazaire | 12 Jan, 1943 | St. Nazaire | Patrol, | 30 days |
| 5. | U-406 | 22 Feb, 1943 | St. Nazaire | 30 Mar, 1943 | Bordeaux | Patrol, | 37 days |
| 6. | U-406 | 25 Apr, 1943 | Bordeaux | 11 May, 1943 | St. Nazaire | Patrol, | 17 days |
| 7. | U-406 | 26 Jun, 1943 | St. Nazaire | 15 Sep, 1943 | St. Nazaire | Patrol, | 82 days |
| 8. | U-406 | 20 Dec, 1943 | St. Nazaire | 22 Dec, 1943 | St. Nazaire | Patrol, | 3 days |
| 9. | U-406 | 25 Dec, 1943 | St. Nazaire | 27 Dec, 1943 | St. Nazaire | Patrol, | 3 days |
| 10. | U-406 | 29 Dec, 1943 | St. Nazaire | 31 Dec, 1943 | St. Nazaire | Patrol, | 3 days |
| 11. | U-406 | 5 Jan, 1944 | St. Nazaire | 18 Feb, 1944 | Sunk | Patrol, | 45 days |
| 11 patrols, 355 days at sea | |||||||
Ships hit by Horst Dieterichs
| Date | Boat | Name of ship | Tons | Nat. | Convoy | Fate * | |
| 19 Aug, 1942 | U-406 | City of Manila | 7.452 |  | br | SL-118 | |
| 28 Dec, 1942 | U-406 | Baron Cochrane | 3.385 | | br | ONS-154 | damaged |
| 28 Dec, 1942 | U-406 | Lynton Grange | 5.029 | | br | ONS-154 | damaged |
| 28 Dec, 1942 | U-406 | Zarian | 4.871 | | br | ONS-154 | damaged |
| 20.737 | |||||||
* Unless otherwise noted the ships listed here were sunk. | |||||||
Decorations and ranks information is in many cases not complete. If you can help on any of those missing that would be great.