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Paul Just

Kapitänleutnant (Crew 36)


Successes
1 warship sunk for a total of 1,200 tons

Born  24 Dec 1915 Hamburg

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Ranks

3 Apr 1936Offiziersanwärter
10 Sep 1936Seekadett
1 May 1937Fähnrich zur See
1 Jul 1938Oberfähnrich zur See
1 Oct 1938Leutnant zur See
1 Oct 1940Oberleutnant zur See
1 Aug 1943Kapitänleutnant

Decorations

3 May 1944German Cross in Gold

U-boat Commands

U-boatFromTo
U-6 Aug, 1942 Sep, 1942   No war patrols 
U-151 Sep, 1942 May, 1943   No war patrols 
U-546 2 Jun 1943 24 Apr 1945   3 patrols (284 days) 

Personal information

After the loss of his boat just after sinking his only victim Paul Just was captured and taken to America and was interrogated rather harshly along with Kptlt. Steinhoff (U-873) who committed suicide.

The ship he sank was the American destroyer escort Frederick C Davis (DE 136). One of the survivors, LTJG P K Lundeberg, often visited Paul Just after the war.

Patrol info for Paul Just


 U-boat Departure Arrival  
1. U-546 22 Jan 1944  Kiel  23 Jan 1944  Marviken   2 days
2. U-546 26 Jan 1944  Marviken  23 Apr 1944  Lorient  Patrol 1,89 days
3. U-546 15 Jun 1944  Lorient  11 Nov 1944  Flensburg  Patrol 2,150 days
4. U-546 11 Mar 1945  Kiel  24 Apr 1945  Sunk  Patrol 3,45 days
3 patrols, 284 days at sea

Ships hit by Paul Just

Date U-boat Name of ship Tons Nat. Convoy
24 Apr 1945U-546 USS Frederick C. Davis (DE 136)1,200am
 1,200

1 ship sunk (1,200 tons).

Legend
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Books dealing with this subject include:

Abandon Ship!. Newcomb, Richard F., 2000.
Battle of the Atlantic. Nesbit, Roy C., 2002.
Death in the Irish Sea. Stokes, Roy, 1998.
Escape from the deep. Kershaw, Alex, 2008.
The Face of Naval Battle. Reeve, John and Stevens, David (ed), 2003.
The Floating Inferno. Seamer, Robert, 1990.
The Golden U-boat. Henrick, Richard P., 1996.
Kriegsmarine U-boats 1939-45 Vol 2. Williamson, Gordon, 2002.
Left for dead. Pete Nelson, 2003.
Ludzie glebin. Umiastowski, Roman, 1929.
Martial Justice. Whittingham, Richard, 1997.
Moral'nyi koefitsient. Solov'ev, Georgii, 1944.
On The Triangle Run. Lamb, James B., 2000.
Opération Kiebitz. Dugas, Jean-Guy, 1992.
Silent Hunters. Savas, Theodore P. (editor), 1997. (transl.)
The last stand of the tin can sailors. Hornfischer, James D., 2005.
U-297. Skinner, Richard W., 2002.
The U-Boat Hunters. Connolly, James B., 1918.
U-Boote am Feind. Langsdorff, Werner von, 1937.
The USS Flier. Michael Sturma, 2008.
Wake of the Wahoo. Sterling, Forest J., 1999.
We were pirates. Robert Schultz, 2009.


About ranks and decorations
Ranks shown in italics are our database inserts based on the rank dates of his crew comrades. The officers of each crew would normally have progressed through the lower ranks at the same rate.

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