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Paul Jacobs

Oberleutnant zur See



No ships sunk or damaged.


Born  23 Mar 1915 Lübeck
Died  25 May 1980(65)


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Ranks

1 Jul 1944Oberleutnant zur See

Decorations

U-boat Commands

U-boatFromTo
U-560 13 Dec 1943 3 May 1945   No war patrols 

Paul Jacobs, possibly someone elevated from the enlisted ranks to officer status during the war, did not belong to Crew 34 as is often claimed. He may have been belatedly attached to the Crew for mere administrative purposes by the Navy’s personnel office, but he did neither share the common training experience of the Crew’s regular members nor did he participate in any Crew events, such as reunions after the war. Regular Crew 34 members would not have claimed him as one of their own, nor would he have claimed to be one of them (Rust, 2009).

Sources

Rust, E. (2009) E-mail correspondence. Author of Naval Officers under Hitler.

Ships hit by Paul Jacobs

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