Heinz-Eberhard Müller
Kapitänleutnant (Crew 36)
| Successes 2 ships sunk for a total of 13.011 GRT 1 ship damaged for a total of 7.174 GRT |
| Born | 14 Mar, 1916 | Stuttgart |
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Personal information
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.
(Clay, Blair. 1998. Hitler's U-boat War, vol 2).
Patrol info
| U-boat | Departure | Arrival | |||||
| 1. | U-662 | 23 Mar, 1943 | St. Nazaire | 19 May, 1943 | St. Nazaire | Patrol, | 58 days |
| 2. | U-662 | 26 Jun, 1943 | St. Nazaire | 21 Jul, 1943 | Sunk | Patrol, | 26 days |
| 2 patrols, 84 days at sea | |||||||
Ships hit by Heinz-Eberhard Müller
| Date | Boat | Name of ship | Tons | Nat. | Convoy | Fate * | |
| 29 Mar, 1943 | U-662 | Empire Whale | 6.159 |  | br | SL-126 | |
| 29 Mar, 1943 | U-662 | Ocean Viceroy | 7.174 | | br | SL-126 | damaged |
| 29 Mar, 1943 | U-662 | Umaria | 6.852 | | br | SL-126 | |
| 20.185 | |||||||
* Unless otherwise noted the ships listed here were sunk. | |||||||
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