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Eduard Aust

Oberleutnant zur See (Crew X/39)


Successes
1 warship sunk for a total of 39 tons

Born  11 Aug, 1920Stolp, Pomerania
Died  9 Jan, 1945Baltic Sea off Baltisch Port

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Ranks

15 Sep, 1939Offiziersanwärter
1 Jul, 1940Fähnrich zur See
1 Jul, 1941Oberfähnrich zur See
1 Mar, 1942Leutnant zur See
1 Oct, 1943Oberleutnant zur See

Decorations

Feb 1942U-boat War Badge 1939
1943Iron Cross 2nd Class

U-boat Commands

U-3412 Jun, 1943 - 5 Aug, 1943  No war patrols 
U-2921 Aug, 1943 - 2 Nov, 1943  No war patrols 
U-9223 Nov, 1943 - 20 Oct, 1944  No war patrols 
U-67921 Oct, 1944 - 9 Jan, 1945 (+)  2 patrols (67 days) 


Patrol info


 U-boatDeparture Arrival  
1. U-679 2 Nov, 1944  Danzig27 Dec, 1944  LibauPatrol56 days
2. U-679 30 Dec, 1944  Libau9 Jan, 1945  SunkPatrol11 days

Ships hit by Eduard Aust


DateBoatName of shipTonsNat.ConvoyFate *
18 Nov, 1944 U-679SK-6239 sj 
 39

* Unless otherwise noted the ships listed here were sunk.



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Books dealing with this subject include:

The ANZAC Squadron, Ashworth, Norman, 1994
Atlantic Odyssey, Thwaites, Michael, 1999
Australia's Colonial Navies, Gillett, Ross, 1982
Battle Surface!, Jenkins, David, 1992
Bitter Victory, Olson, Wesley, 2000
Diary of a Submariner, de Majnik, John, 1996
Duell vor Australien, Winter, Barbara, 1994
Fly West, Southall, Ivan, 1974
Grandes Batallas Navales, Koenig, William and Mayer, S.L., 1977
Hospital Ships, Goodman, R. D., 1992
In Peril on the Sea, Kane, James S., 1994
Klaar voor onderwater, Wytema, M.S., 1936
Maritime Is Number Ten - The Sunderland Era 1939-45, Baff, K.C. (Flight Lieutenant), 1983
Military Errors of World War Two, Macksey, Kenneth, 1998 (transl.)
Mit dem Einhorn gegen Engelland, Fröwis, Franz J., 1999
The Royal Australian Navy in World War II, Stevens, David, 1996
Running the Gauntlet, Satchell, Alister, 2001
A Sailor of Austria, Biggins, John, 1994
The Shame of Savo, Loxton, Bruce with Coulthard-Clark, Chris, 1997
The Splinter Fleet of the Otranto Barrage, Millholland, Ray, 1936
Steel Shark in the Pacific, Jaffee, Walter W., 2001
Stoker's Submarine, Brenchley, Fred and Brenchley, Elizabeth, 2001
Stuifzeetjes over P 322, Van Dapperen, J., 1964
Torpedo Pal! Ponorky a ponorkari rakousko-uherskeho valecnego lodstva, Novak, Jiri, 2001
Torpedoed!, Philip Lecane, 2005
U-Boat Far from Home, Stevens, David, 1997
Valiant Occasions, Macdonnell, James Edmond, 1977
With Honour in Battle, McDaniel, J.T., 2003
Zraloci Cisare Pana. Cesti namornici na rakouskych ponorkach 1914-1918, Jindrich, Marek, 2001

Special thanks to Fernando Almeida for data on ranks and decorations.

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