Career
U-155 conducted 10 patrols, sinking 26 ships totalling 140,449 tons and damaging one other grossing 6,736 tons.
On November 15, 1942, she sank the escort carrier HMS Avenger and the British troop transport ship Ettrick, she also damaged the cargo ship USS Almack.
On May 4, 1945, the boat shot down a P-51 Mustang of No. 126 Squadron RAF.
U-155 lost only five crewmen during her career:
- On March 10, 1942, she was returning from the US east coast when I WO Oberleutnant zur See Gert Rentrop was lost overboard.
- On August 19, 1942, during an aircraft attack Maschinengefreiter Konrad Garneier was lost overboard.
- On June 14, 1943, Bootsmaat Heinz Wilke was killed when a Wellington aircraft of No. 547 Squadron RAF attacked in the Bay of Biscay. Later that day, four Mosquito aircraft of 307 Polish Squadron attacked, wounding five men. U-155 shot down one of the attacking planes.
- On June 23, 1944, Mosquitos of 248 Squadron attacked, killing Matrosenobergefreiter Karl Lohmeier and Mechanikerobergefreiter Friedrich Feller and wounding seven others.
Read more about this topic: German Submarine U-155 (1941)
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