Herbert Opitz
Kapitänleutnant (Crew 34)
| Successes 2 ships sunk for a total of 3.283 GRT 1 warship sunk for a total of 925 tons |
| Born | 7 Mar, 1915 | Magdeburg |
| Died | 30 Nov, 1941 | Bay of Biscay |
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Ranks
Decorations |
U-boat Commands
| U-5 | 12 Aug, 1940 | - | 27 Mar, 1941 | No war patrols |
| U-206 | 17 May, 1941 | - | 30 Nov, 1941 (+) | 3 patrols (68 days) |
Patrol info
| U-boat | Departure | Arrival | |||||
| 1. | U-206 | 5 Aug, 1941 | Trondheim | 10 Sep, 1941 | St. Nazaire | Patrol, | 37 days |
| 2. | U-206 | 30 Sep, 1941 | St. Nazaire | 28 Oct, 1941 | St. Nazaire | Patrol, | 29 days |
| 3. | U-206 | 29 Nov, 1941 | St. Nazaire | 30 Nov, 1941 | Sunk | Patrol, | 2 days |
| 3 patrols, 68 days at sea | |||||||
Ships hit by Herbert Opitz
| Date | Boat | Name of ship | Tons | Nat. | Convoy | Fate * | |
| 9 Aug, 1941 | U-206 | Ocean Victor | 202 |  | br | ||
| 14 Oct, 1941 | U-206 | HMS Fleur de Lys (K 122) | 925 | | br | OG-75 | |
| 19 Oct, 1941 | U-206 | Baron Kelvin | 3.081 | | br | ||
| 4.208 | |||||||
* Unless otherwise noted the ships listed here were sunk. | |||||||
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Decorations and ranks information is in many cases not complete. If you can help on any of those missing that would be great.