This was believed to have been the U-519 but she was probably sunk a few days earlier.

This aircraft failed to return from U-boat sweep in the eastern Mediterranean.

This aircraft failed to return from anti-submarine patrol

At 08.17 hours, the boat was attacked by the Hudson. AA fire hit the aircraft during the initial strafing run and its four depth charges fell in 80 to 250 metres distance, causing only light damages. Hit in the cockpit area and in the starboard engine, the Hudson headed for the coast about 50 miles away, but had to ditch only 3 minutes after the attack. The crew of 4 made it into a dinghy and were rescued in the afternoon by a Walrus flying boat (700 Sqdn FAA, pilot SubLt Neil Fuller) after being spotted and escorted by Hudsons (500 and 608 Sqdn RAF).

The sinking of U-131
At 09.25 hours, the boat was spotted and forced to dive by a Martlet aircraft of HMS Audacity while shadowing the convoy HG-76. Walker on HMS Stork immediately raced to the contact together with four other escorts. After about one hour, HMS Stanley made contact and HMS Pentstemon carried out several depth charges attack on the boat, which was badly damaged and forced to surface due to chlorine gas from the batteries at 12.47 hours. Unable to dive again, Baumann then tried to escape at full speed on the surface. After 20 minutes, a Martlet aircraft strafed the boat, but was hit by AA fire during the attack run and crashed into the sea, killing the pilot. In the meantime the escorts began shelling U-131 from a distance of about 7 nautical miles and scored several hits when closing in. The boat fired at HMS Blankney without scoring a hit and was eventually scuttled by the crew at 13.30 hours.

This was the first aircraft shot down by a U-boat in the war.

This was the only airship (i.e. like Zeppelin) shot down during WWII. For more information you could check out this page.

At 09.29 hours, four Mosquito aircraft (3 from 307 Polish Sqdn RAF and 1 from 410 Sqdn RCAF) attacked a group of 5 outbound boats (U-68, U-155, U-159, U-415 and U-634) in the Bay of Biscay. The leading Mosquito first strafed U-68 and then U-155, but its port engine stopped after being hit by AA fire and the aircraft was forced to make a belly landing back at the base in Predannack. A second Mosquito, piloted by F/O J. Pelka, attacked too but its guns did not fire and the remaining aircraft did not attack due to the intense AA fire.
5 crew members aboard U-155 were wounded, two of them badly. The boat returned to base together with U-68 and recieved the doctor from her for medical treatment of the wounded men.

U-564 was sunk in this attack. The damaged aircraft had to ditch at sea.

The boat was attacked five times by three aircraft from the escort carrier USS Tripoli (CVE 64) and even escaped a Fido torpedo. One Avenger aircraft (Sqdn VC-6) was shot down. This was the last aircraft lost to U-boats from escort carriers in the Atlantic.

The boat was lost in this attack.

At 10.50 hours, the outbound boat was attacked by the Halifax in the Bay of Biscay. The initial attack was broken off due to heavy AA fire, but the aircraft then made a strafing attack from the bow and released six depth charges, which overshot the boat and detonated about 25 metres astern. The attack gave U-228 a severe shaking and wounded the II WO and a seaman. The Germans observed several AA hits on the aircraft (misidentified as Lancaster) and saw smoke before crash-diving. The Halifax and its crew of seven men did not return from patrol and apparently crashed shortly after this attack.

Around convoy HX-237.

At 08.30 hours, the inbound boat was attacked by the Whitley (misidentified as Wellington) in the Bay of Biscay. The aircraft strafed the boat and dropped 2 or 3 bombs that fell about 15 metres astern. The Germans observed AA hits in the cockpit area and saw the Whitley flying away very low with a smoke trail. Its crew sent a SOS and probably ditched, but the 5 men crew was lost. U-256 was badly damaged in the attack and limped into Lorient the next day, some damages found on deck were apparently caused by the propeller of the aircraft.

The aircraft seems to have crashed on its own during preparations for the attack run.

One of the depth charges dropped by the Hudson exploded on contact with the boat, crippling the aircraft and forcing the crew to bail out. Only the pilot and one crewman were rescued by the British sloops HMS Erne and HMS Leith. U-259 was lost in this attack.

The boat was damaged during the attack and returned to port.

No damages to the U-boat in this attack, but the boat was already heading to base after being damaged by a British Wellington (Sqdn. 172/Y). The boat was paid off on July 1, 1944 due to the damages.

This aircraft was apparently US Navy VPB-103 Squadron. All aircrew perished.

U-283 was sunk the very next day by another aircraft.

The boat was lost in this attack.

This aircraft was probably shot down by this boat.

U-boat damaged by attack. U-333 had already been damaged in an attack made by Australian Sunderland Y/10 the day before. THe boat was severely damaged and had to abort to La Pallice, France.

At 21.31 hours, the outbound boat was surprised by the Wellington aircraft in the Bay of Biscay. But when the aircraft switched on the Leigh Light, it was hit by AA fire and crashed burning into the sea after passing over the boat, killing the crew of six. Two of the four depth charges dropped actually hit U-333, but one broke up without detonating and the other bounced of and caused only light damages.
The same aircraft and crew had sunk U-268 on 19 Feb, 1943.

This is a possible match. Either this plane or the 228/U one were shot down by this boat.

At 09.58 hours, the inbound boat was surprised by the Halifax in the outer Bay of Biscay. AA fire hit the aircraft during the attack run, so the stick of bombs fell wide and only one detonating near the bow caused some light damages. Hit in the outer starboard engine and the fuselage, the Halifax was seen to crash into the sea in some distance. The Australian Sgt H.C. Taylor was the sole survivor of the eight-men crew, picked up by U-338 and taken prisoner.

The boat survived a swamp operation, shooting down one of its attackers.

Around 18.15 hours, U-359 and U-466 were attacked by the Liberator west of Oporto, Portugal. The aircraft strafed them and dropped 3 bombs that fell between the boats, which both fired at the aircraft and crash-dived undamaged at 18.26 hours. The Germans had observed AA hits on the bomber and it apparently crashed shortly after the attack, killing its entire crew of 10.

Another 2 Wellingtons were also involved in the attack, one of them had to crash land.

No survivors from aircraft, the boat had to abort its patrol due to damages sustained.

The sinking of U-417
At 11.10 hours, the boat was attacked by the Fortress southeast of Iceland. Despite of AA hits in the nose, cockpit, mainplanes, bomb bays and the rear turret of the aircraft, the pilot dropped his depth charges on target. Several survivors from U-417 were seen in the water after she sank, but none were rescued.

Thomson (CO of 206 Squadron) had to ditch the Fortress shortly afterwards and all 8 crewmen managed to get into a dinghy although without supplies. On 14 June, an American Catalina aircraft (USN VP-84/P-3, pilot Lt Douglas S. Vieira, USNR) attempted to land nearby, but crashed and the 9 crew members had to rescue themselves in two rafts. While the crew of the Fortress was located and picked up the same day by a British Catalina aicraft (190 Sqdn RAF, pilot S/L J.A. Holmes, DFC), the Catalina crew was located only five days later, but just one survivor was still alive, the others had died of exposure.

At 09.55 hours, an U-boat was attacked by the Catalina in the outer Bay of Biscay. The boat was most probably the inbound U-418, which was lost shortly afterwards without reporting the attack. AA fire hit the bow of the aircraft during the attack run and killed the front gunner and wounded two other crew members, but the pilot carried on and dropped the depth charges. The aircraft made it home but was so "holed" that it sank on landing at Pembroke Dock. Later salvaged.

At 20.50 hours, the Flak boat was attacked by the Sunderland in the Bay of Biscay. The aircraft was hit heavily during the attack run, but managed to drop 5 depth charges before it crashed, killing all 11 crewmen. The explosions extensively damaged U-441 and a crewman had been wounded by strafing, so the boat had to return to base.
This was the first success of the Flak boats.

Could also have been U-413, U-629 or U-740.

Aircraft shot down on the Brest - La Pallice route.

Near convoy ONS-20. U-448 and U-281 were both involved in the attack and the former was so damaged she had to abort her patrol.

At 00.12 hours, the boat was illuminated by the Hudson with flares after obtaining a radar contact off Oran and subsequently attacked. AA fire hit the aircraft (misidentified as Hampden) during its inital strafing run and killed the pilot. No depth charges were dropped as the front gunner struggled to save the Hudson from crashing. The navigator then flew the aircraft to their base at Tafaraoui, but the four remaining crewmen bailed out and let it crash because they could not land the Hudson safely.
This aircraft was formerly credited with sinking U-602, but was in fact against U-453 inflicting no damage.

The boat was sunk in this attack.

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.

The crew of U-459 had to cut the aircraft wreck from the tower and in doing do found 3 unexploded depth charges which was decided to drop into the sea at high speed. One or more exploded causing severe damages to the boat. Another British Wellington aircraft (Sqdn 547/V) then arrived and dropped more depth charges on the already damaged boat.

On this day U-481 was attacked by two Il-2 (35. ShAP) in the Narwa Bay in the Baltic. One of the Il-2 was damaged and was later ditched.

The boat was sunk in this attack as it was attacked by many Wildcat aircraft.

The boat also damaged a Catalina during this battle. U-489 was sunk in the attack.

The II WO and one lookout from the U-505 were seriously wounded in a surprising air attack out of low clouds by a Hudson aircraft southeast of Trinidad. The aircraft dropped four depth charges and scored a direct hit, but was lost with its five-man crew in the explosion. The boat was damaged heavily and broke off its patrol. 12 days later the wounded II WO was transferred to the Milk Cow U-462.

U-545 was scuttled after this attack

At 22.07 hours, the boat fired with its 20mm AA guns at the approaching Liberator (misidentified as Sunderland) east-northeast of Port Said. The Germans observed hits on the aircraft, which passed over the boat without dropping bombs. U-561 then crash-dived, but was again attacked when surfacing at 23.15 hours. Again scoring hits with the AA guns, the Germans observed how the aircraft caught fire, jettisoned the bombs and crashed into the sea. All 7 crewmen were lost. 

At 18.59 hours, a group of five outbound boats (U-185, U-358, U-564, U-634 and U-653) were attacked by the Sunderland northwest of Cape Finisterre. The aircraft singled out U-564, dropped its bombs and crashed in flames after being hit by the intense AA fire, all 11 crew members were killed. The badly damaged boat turned back under escort by U-185, but was sunk by aircraft the next day.

The sinking of U-564
At 14.39 hours, two inbound boats were spotted by the Whitley in the Bay of Biscay and shadowed. U-564 was unable to dive after an air attack the day before and was escorted back to France by U-185. At 16.45 hours, the fuel of the aircraft was running low and the pilot decided to attack U-564. Both boats opened fire and hit the bomber, but its depth charges caused more damages on the boat and she sank at 17.30 hours. The hydraulics and the starboard engine of the Whitley were damaged, so the crew was forced to ditch and ended up as German prisoners after being picked up by a French trawler.

The commander and 17 crewmen were picked up by U-185, which transferred them to the German destroyer Z-24 two hours later and then continued her patrol. The Canadian Hampden aircraft X2961 (415 Sqdn RCAF/S, pilot S/L J.G. Stronach) arrived in the area around the time of the air attack, but was shot down by a German Ju88C fighter (15./KG 40, Hptm Hans Morr) with the loss of all four crewmen. 

At 12.50 hours, the boat crash-dived when attacked by the British Hudson Mk.III V9169 (233 Sqdn RAF, pilot F/S S. Woodward) south of the Balearic Islands. Four depth charges detonated near the bows and forced U-565 with severe damages back to the surface. The gunners immediately scored hits in the tail of the aircraft, so the A/S bomb dropped fell wide. The heavily damaged Hudson then left the area after recieving more hits during its third attack run.
Shortly thereafter another Hudson from the same Squadron arrived at the scene and attacked U-565. Hit by AA fire during its first attack run, the aircraft dropped three depth charges, caught fire and crashed into the sea 500 metres from the boat, which sustained no futher damages in this attack.

Aircraft PV-1. The second shot down during this hunt.

Aircraft PV-1

The aircraft and the boat must have killed each other. No survivors from either side.

The entire aircrew was lost

At 11.14 hours, the boat was attacked by the Catalina astern of convoy QP-14 northeast of Jan Mayen Island. The aircraft was hit by AA fire during the attack run and its four depth charges fell wide, causing only minor damages to the boat. Two crewmen of the Catalina had been wounded and one engine and the petrol tanks were hit, so they had to make a forced landing near the convoy. The crew was rescued by HMS Marne.

The boat was lost in this massive hunt in the Caribbean. It fought bravely for days against overwhelming odd before finally being sunk.

At 01.25 hours, the boat was attacked in the Bay of Biscay at night by a Wellington aircraft (RAF Sqdn 172/J, pilot F/L L.H. Such), which was hit by AA fire and crashed into the sea, killing the crew of six men.

At 13.40 hours, the boat was attacked by the Catalina about 250 miles west of Lisbon. AA fire hit the port side of the aircraft during the attack run, damaging the wing, the engine and a fuel tank and wounding the nose gunner. Due to the damages, only the three depth charges on the starboard side were dropped but did not damage U-642, which crash-dived after the attack and did not observe how the burning Catalina ditched shortly afterwards. Two crewmen were lost in the crash and another died the next day from a heart attack. 7 survivors were picked up after 4 days by HMS Swale and taken to Casablanca.

The entire aircrew, 11 men, was lost

At 14.24 hours, the inbound boat was attacked by the Whitley in the Bay of Biscay. The aircraft dropped four depth charges before it was shot down by AA fire, but did no damage. The entire crew of six men was lost.

Around convoy SL-139.

From Hunter-Killer USS Card. Was sunk the next day by its aircraft.

At 10.28 hours, the outbound boat was attacked by the Halifax (misidentified as Sunderland) in the Bay of Biscay. The aircraft only strafed the boat in the first attack and recieved several AA hits in a port engine during a second attack attempt. The pilot then apparently lost control when turning for another attack and the Halifax crashed into the sea about 500 metres from the boat, killing the crew of eight.

In the Gibraltar Straits, one of many attacks on this boat.

The boat claimed shot down near Ösel in the Baltic two Soviet planes (one Il-2 and one Pe-2). The U-boat was used as convoy Flak escort at this time.

A Canadian Catalina aircraft (Sqdn 162/T) was shot down. The boat was lost in this attack.

A British B-24 Liberator (Sqdn 120/B, pilot Harold F. Kerrigan) was fatally hit. The aircraft had to crash-land and was written off as destroyed. The aircraft had dropped 6 depth charges that damaged the boat. The boat returned to port on March 12.

A British Wellington bomber (Sqdn 172/O) was shot down.

A Canadian Wellington aircraft (Sqdn 407/E) was shot down on the Brest - La Pallice route.

A British B-24 Liberator aircraft (Sqdn 86/N) was shot down. The attack took place north of the British Isles.

8 men from U-804 were wounded in the action. The air crew was saved by U-1000 on 18 June and taken to Norway for questioning.

An American Avenger aircraft (Sqdn VC-9) was shot down.

An American Avenger aircraft (Sqdn VC-9) was shot down.

The boat was sunk in this attack.

A British Catalina (Sqdn 265/H) attacked the boat. The boat shot down the aircraft and escaped despite a massive search for it.

A Canadian Sunderland aircraft (Sqdn 422/R) was shot down. The U-boat was looking for survivors from U-476 damaged earlier that day by a Sqdn 210 Catalina aircraft.

A British B-24 Liberator (Sqdn 53/T) was shot down.

A British B-24 Liberator aircraft (Sqdn 53/O) was shot down by the boat.

An American Avenger aircraft (Sqdn VC-6) was shot down. The boat was sunk in this attack but it brought down one of the attackers even as the boat was slipping beneath the waves.

A British Fairey Firefly aircraft (Sqdn 1771) was shot down. The boat was sunk in a follow-up attack.

A British Fairey Firefly aircraft (Sqdn 1771) was shot down. The boat was lost in this mass attack of Fireflies and Barracuda aircraft.

A British Beaufighter (Sqdn 404/H) was shot down. The Beaufighters were from Sqdn. 144 and 404, probably 8 of them, 4 carried torpedoes, the rest as flak suppressors.

British Beaufighter aircraft (Sqdn 404/F) was shot down.

A British Mosquito aircraft was shot down. The aircraft (DZ592) was possibly lost to flying debris. 34 Mosquito aircraft from 3 Squadrons attacked U-1065 and U-804 en route to Norway from Kiel.

U-1163 and U-771 were being transferred from Stavanger to Kristiansand South, and were proceeding on the surface, accompanied by surface escorts. Mosquitoes E/333 and S/333 (HR126) made the attack. Mosquito S crashed into the sea during the attack, with the loss of Fnr. Axel Reidar Eikemo and Kvm. Claus Harr. The attack took place off Egero, Norway. The boats suffered no damages.

U-boat sunk. 5 of 8 air crew rescued. The captain of the Canso, Flight Lieutenant D.E. Hornell, was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his conduct during the attack and afterwards while awaiting rescue in the dinghy.