30 May 1943
Aircraft attack, aircraft shot down:British Whitley Z9440 (10 OTU RAF/N, pilot Sgt L.O. Slade)

At 12.00 hours, the inbound boat was attacked by the Whitley northwest of Cape Finisterre. The aircraft (misidentified as Lancaster) made two attack runs dropping four bombs on each run, but without results. The Whitley was hit by AA fire in the second attack and had later to ditch with engine problems. The six crewmen were rescued by a Spanish trawler.

30 May 1943
At 12.22 hours, the boat was attacked by a British Liberator aircraft (224 Sqdn RAF/G, pilot F/L M.J. Elworthy) northwest of Cape Finisterre. The aircraft made three attacks and dropped 10 depth charges, but the boat escaped damage while the Liberator was damaged by AA fire. (Sources: Franks/Zimmerman)

24 Jul 1943
Aircraft attack, aircraft shot down: British Wellington (172 Sqdn RAF/Q, pilot F/O W.H.T. Jennings)

The sinking of U-459 At about 17.15 hours, the Wellington of 172 Squadron surprised and attacked the boat, was hit by heavy AA fire during the approach and crashed into her starboard side! Only the rear gunner Sgt A.A. Turner miraculously survived the crash when his turret broke off on impact and he found himself in the water close to an inflated dinghy. The remaining five crew members were killed. U-459 lost several gunners and most of the AA guns in the crash and to make things worse the crew found three unexploded depth charges on deck when clearing it from wreckage. They decided to roll them into the sea at high speed, but at least one of them exploded and was close enough to disable the steering gear and to cause severe damages to the stern compartments.At about 17.30 hours, the boat was strafed and attacked with seven depth charges by another British Wellington (547 Sqdn RAF/V, pilot F/O J. Whyte), causing further damages. The commander then ordered the crew to abandon U-459 and then scuttled the boat - apparently choosing to go down with his ship. 41 German survivors and the British survivor were picked up by ORP Orkan after about 8 hours.

3 recorded attacks on this boat.