The Baltic Sea
The losses around the Bay of Danzig were mostly due to very heavy mining operations
by the British in 1944. This helped delay the deployment of the XXI boats in late 1944.
In case of U-416 it's the latter sinking position that I plot. As you can see 4 U-boats were lost in unknown position in the Gulf of Finland. This map does of course not include the more than 200 U-boat scuttled there in May 1945.
The eastern front position is drawn as of Aug 29, 1944.
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Books dealing with this subject include:
 Dödens Hav - Östersjön 1945. Wetterholm, Claes-Göran, 2002.
 Eva's War. Krutein, Eva, 1990. (transl.)
 Havsvargar. Ekman, Per-Olof, 1983. (transl.)
Ofredens hav - Östersjön 1939 - 1992. Linder, Jan and Lundberg, Lennart, 2002.
 Polskie Okrety Podwodne 1926-1969. Rudzki, Czeslaw, 1985.
Ryska ubåtskriget i Östersjön 1941-1945. Thorén, Ragnar, 1992.
Sukellusveneella UC57 Vapaussotaan. Tuompo, W.E., 1934.
Suomen Laivasto Sodassa 1939-1945 - The Finnish Navy at War. Keskinen, Kalevi and Mantykoski, Jorma, 1991.
 La tragedia del Gustloff. Schön, Heinz, 2003.
Uhka Lannesta. Tapani Mattila, 1997.
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