| Born | 9 Jan 1918 | Probstheida, Saxony | |
| Died | 30 Apr 1945 | (27) | Bay of Biscay |
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U-boat Commands
| U-boat | From | To | |
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| U-326 | 6 Jun 1944 | 30 Apr 1945 (+) | 1 patrol (34 days) |
Missing, official date of death listed as 15 June 1945.
Peter Matthes died when his boat, U-326, was sunk on 30 April 1945 in the Bay of Biscay west of Brest in position 47.51N, 06.46W by retro bombs from a US Catalina aircraft (VP-63 USN/R) (Niestlé, 2014).
Sources
Busch, R. and Röll, H-J. (1999). German U-boat commanders of World War II.
Niestlé, A. (2014). German U-boat losses during World War II.
Patrol info for Peter Matthes
| U-boat | Departure | Arrival | ||||||
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| 1. | U-326 | 23 Feb 1945 | Kiel | 25 Feb 1945 | Horten | 3 days | ||
| 2. | U-326 | 4 Mar 1945 | Horten | 10 Mar 1945 | Stavanger | 7 days | ||
| 3. | U-326 | 14 Mar 1945 | Stavanger | 22 Mar 1945 | Bergen | 9 days | ||
| 4. | U-326 | 28 Mar 1945 | Bergen | 30 Apr 1945 | Sunk | Patrol 1, | 34 days | |
About ranks and decorations
Ranks shown in italics are our database inserts based on the rank dates of his crew comrades. The officers of each crew would normally have progressed through the lower ranks at the same rate.
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