Horst Deckert
Kapitänleutnant (Crew 37a)
| Successes 2 ships sunk for a total of 8.774 GRT 1 warship sunk for a total of 255 tons (lost aboard transport ships) 3 ships damaged for a total of 22.928 GRT |
| Born | 11 Oct, 1918 | Hannover |
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Ranks
Decorations |
U-boat Commands
| U-8 | 1 Aug, 1941 | - | 16 May, 1942 | No war patrols |
| U-73 | 1 Oct, 1942 | - | 16 Dec, 1943 | 7 patrols (149 days) |
Patrol info
| U-boat | Departure | Arrival | |||||
| 1. | U-73 | 20 Oct, 1942 | La Spezia | 19 Nov, 1942 | La Spezia | Patrol, | 31 days |
| 2. | U-73 | 1 Dec, 1942 | La Spezia | 8 Dec, 1942 | La Spezia | Patrol, | 8 days |
| 3. | U-73 | 22 Dec, 1942 | La Spezia | 13 Jan, 1943 | La Spezia | Patrol, | 23 days |
| 4. | U-73 | 12 Jun, 1943 | La Spezia | 1 Jul, 1943 | Toulon | Patrol, | 20 days |
| 5. | U-73 | 2 Aug, 1943 | Toulon | 29 Aug, 1943 | Toulon | Patrol, | 28 days |
| 6. | U-73 | 5 Oct, 1943 | Toulon | 30 Oct, 1943 | Toulon | Patrol, | 26 days |
| 7. | U-73 | 4 Dec, 1943 | Toulon | 16 Dec, 1943 | Sunk | Patrol, | 13 days |
| 7 patrols, 149 days at sea | |||||||
Ships hit by Horst Deckert
| Date | Boat | Name of ship | Tons | Nat. | Convoy | Fate * | |
| 14 Nov, 1942 | U-73 | Lalande | 7.453 |  | br | Torch | damaged |
| 1 Jan, 1943 | U-73 | Arthur Middleton | 7.176 |  | am | UGS-3 | |
| 1 Jan, 1943 | U-73 | USS LCT-21 [Trans.] | 255 | | am | UGS-3 | |
| 21 Jun, 1943 | U-73 | Brinkburn | 1.598 | | br | TE-22 | |
| 27 Jun, 1943 | U-73 | Abbeydale | 8.299 | | br | XTG-2 | damaged |
| 16 Dec, 1943 | U-73 | John S. Copley | 7.176 | | am | GUS-24 | damaged |
| 31.957 | |||||||
* Unless otherwise noted the ships listed here were sunk. | |||||||
Decorations and ranks information is in many cases not complete. If you can help on any of those missing that would be great.