Heinz-Eberhard Müller
Kapitänleutnant (Crew 36)
| Successes 2 ships sunk, total tonnage 13,011 GRT 1 ship damaged, total tonnage 7,174 GRT |
| Born | 14 Mar 1916 | Stuttgart |
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U-boat Commands
| U-boat | From | To | |
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| U-662 | 10 Mar 1943 | 21 Jul 1943 | 2 patrols (84 days) |
The U-662 was sunk after 3 days of aircraft attacks of the coast of Brazil. Müller successfully repelled at least 3 attacks before the Catalina of VP-94 (pilot R. H. Howland) fatally hit the boat. Müller and 4 men were thrown overboard when the depth charges exploded (the previous gun crew had been killed by gunfire) and the U-662 broke in two and sank.
One man died shortly afterwards leaving Müller and 3 others drifting on a raft (dropped by the aircraft) in shark infested waters for 16 days before being found by a B-24 bomber and rescued by the former yacht USS Siren then escorting convoy TJ 4. One of the 3 men died on the Siren leaving only Müller and 2 other survivors from the boat (Blair, 1998).
Sources
Blair, C. (1998). Hitler’s U-boat War. The Hunted, 1942-1945.
Patrol info for Heinz-Eberhard Müller
| U-boat | Departure | Arrival | ||||||
| 1. | U-662 | 23 Mar 1943 | St. Nazaire | 19 May 1943 | St. Nazaire | Patrol 1, | 58 days | |
| 2. | U-662 | 26 Jun 1943 | St. Nazaire | 21 Jul 1943 | Sunk | Patrol 2, | 26 days | |
| 2 patrols, 84 days at sea | ||||||||
Ships hit by Heinz-Eberhard Müller
| Date | U-boat | Name of ship | Tons | Nat. | Convoy | ||
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| 29 Mar 1943 | U-662 |  | Empire Whale | 6,159 |  | br | SL-126 |
| 29 Mar 1943 | U-662 | Ocean Viceroy (d.) | 7,174 | | br | SL-126 | |
| 29 Mar 1943 | U-662 | Umaria | 6,852 | | br | SL-126 | |
| 20,185 | |||||||
2 ships sunk (13,011 tons) and 1 ship damaged (7,174 tons). Legend | |||||||
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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