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Paul-Friedrich Otto

Kapitänleutnant (Crew 37a)


Successes
1 warship a total loss, total tonnage 1,370 tons

Born  3 Apr 1917 Waren, Müritz


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Ranks

3 Apr 1937Offiziersanwärter
1 May 1938Fähnrich zur See
1 Jul 1939Oberfähnrich zur See
1 Aug 1939Leutnant zur See
1 Sep 1941Oberleutnant zur See
1 Jun 1944Kapitänleutnant

Decorations

 Iron Cross 2nd Class
 Iron Cross 1st Class
19 Apr 1944German Cross in Gold

U-boat Commands

U-boatFromTo
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 for Paul-Friedrich Otto


 U-boat Departure Arrival  
1. U-270 23 Mar 1943  Kiel  15 May 1943  St. Nazaire  Patrol 1,54 days
2. U-270 26 Jun 1943  St. Nazaire  2 Jul 1943  St. Nazaire  Patrol 2,7 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 3,30 days
5. U-270 8 Dec 1943  St. Nazaire  17 Jan 1944  St. Nazaire  Patrol 4,41 days
6. U-270 6 Jun 1944  St. Nazaire  17 Jun 1944  Lorient  Patrol 5,12 days
5 patrols, 144 days at sea

Ships hit by Paul-Friedrich Otto

Date U-boat Name of ship Tons Nat. Convoy
20 Sep 1943U-270 HMS Lagan (K 259) (t.)1,370brON-202
 1,370

1 ship sunk (1,370 tons).

Legend
(t.) means the ship was a total loss (included in ships & tonnage lost).



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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.
Ett slagskepps undergång. Jacobsen Alf R, 2006.
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.)
The USS Flier. Michael Sturma, 2008.
Wolf. Vause, Jordan, 1997. (transl.)


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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