Paul-Friedrich Otto
Kapitänleutnant (Crew 37a)
| Successes 1 warship a total loss for a total of 1.370 tons |
| Born | 3 Apr, 1917 | Waren, Müritz |
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Ranks
Decorations |
U-boat Commands
| U-270 | 5 Sep, 1942 | - | 15 Jul, 1944 | 5 patrols (144 days) |
| U-2525 | 12 Dec, 1944 | - | 5 May, 1945 | No war patrols |
Patrol info
| U-boat | Departure | Arrival | |||||
| 1. | U-270 | 23 Mar, 1943 | Kiel | 15 May, 1943 | St. Nazaire | Patrol | 54 days |
| 2. | U-270 | 26 Jun, 1943 | St. Nazaire | 2 Jul, 1943 | St. Nazaire | Patrol | 7 days |
| 3. | U-270 | 24 Jul, 1943 | St. Nazaire | 25 Jul, 1943 | St. Nazaire | 2 days | |
| 4. | U-270 | 7 Sep, 1943 | St. Nazaire | 6 Oct, 1943 | St. Nazaire | Patrol | 30 days |
| 5. | U-270 | 8 Dec, 1943 | St. Nazaire | 17 Jan, 1944 | St. Nazaire | Patrol | 41 days |
| 6. | U-270 | 6 Jun, 1944 | St. Nazaire | 17 Jun, 1944 | Lorient | Patrol | 12 days |
Ships hit by Paul-Friedrich Otto
| Date | Boat | Name of ship | Tons | Nat. | Convoy | Fate * | |
| 20 Sep, 1943 | U-270 | HMS Lagan (K 259) | 1.370 |  | br | ON-202 | total loss |
| 1.370 | |||||||
* Unless otherwise noted the ships listed here were sunk. | |||||||
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Books dealing with this subject include: Der Abschied, Lothar-Günther Buchheim, 2002 Angriff, Ran, Versenken!, Alman, Karl, 1965 The Bowmanville Break, Shelley, Sidney, 1968 Captains of War, Gray, Edwyn, 1988 Kapitänleutnant Otto Steinbrinck, Herzog, Bodo, 1963 Klarschiff zum Gefecht, Busch, Fritz-Otto, Paus, Peter and Alman, Karl, 1998  Moral'nyi koefitsient, Solov'ev, Georgii, 1944  Opération Kiebitz, Dugas, Jean-Guy, 1992 Otto Kretschmer, Herzog, Bodo, 2001 Sechs Jahre U-bootfahrten, Spiess, Johannes, 1925 (transl.) Silent Runner, Martin, Rodney J., 2003 Submarine Grayback, Cline, Rick, 1999 U-700, Follett, James, 1992 (transl.) U-Boat Killer, Macintyre, Donald, 2000 (transl.) Wolf, Vause, Jordan, 1997 (transl.) |
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