Events on this day

5 July

This is a run-down from several databases on our site. It's meant to give a clear picture of events on this date, all year round.

U-boat Shipyard report

Ordered (0)	Laid down (2)	Launched (3)	Commissioned (6)
No U-boat orders on this date	1941: U-197 1944: U-2510	1941: U-136, U-355, U-754	1940: U-103 1941: U-133 U-208 U-654 1944: U-1106 U-1279
These are commissioned boats. For more see our Shipyard pages.

Allied Ships hit on this date

	U-boat	Commander	Name of ship	Tons	Country	Convoy
1940
	U-34	Rollmann	HMS Whirlwind (D 30)	1,100	br
	U-99	Kretschmer	Magog	2,053	ca	HX-52
1941
	U-96	Lehmann-Willenbrock	Anselm	5,954	br
1942
	U-334	Siemon	Earlston	7,195	br	PQ-17
	U-456	Teichert	Honomu	6,977	am	PQ-17
	U-703	Bielfeld	Empire Byron	6,645	br	PQ-17
	U-703	Bielfeld	River Afton	5,479	br	PQ-17
	U-88	Bohmann	Carlton	5,127	am	PQ-17
	U-88	Bohmann	Daniel Morgan	7,177	am	PQ-17
1943
	U-593	Kelbling	Devis	6,054	br	KMS-18B
	U-593	Kelbling	HMS LCM-1123	52	br	KMS-18B
	U-593	Kelbling	HMS LCM-1129 (d)	52	br	KMS-18B
	U-759	Friedrich	Maltran	3,513	am	GTMO-134
1944
	U-247	Matschulat	Noreen Mary	207	br
	U-390	Geissler	HMS Ganilly (T 367)	545	br	EBC-30
	U-763	Cordes	Glendinning	1,927	br	FTC-27
				60,057
* Unless otherwise noted the ships listed here were sunk. (d) = damaged See all Allied ships hit by U-boats during WWII.

Attacks on this day

1942

U-334. Evening, NE of North Cape, Norway: a German Ju88 aircraft (III/KG 30) dropped two bombs on U-334, damaging the steering gear and leaving the boat unable to dive. U-334 had to be escorted to Neidenfjord by U-456, arriving there a day later.

1943

U-535. The sinking of U-535
16.55 hrs, off Cape Vilano, Spain: a group of three inbound boats (U-170, U-535 and U-536) was attacked by British B-24 Liberator BZ751 (53 Sqn RAF/G, pilot F/S W. Anderson, RNZAF). All three boats successfully evaded the first attack, and U-536 was merely strafed during the second because the depth charges failed to release. As leading boat, U-536 then gave the signal to dive, but for unknown reasons U-535 remained surfaced and had to face the next attack alone. Despite flak damage to wings, fuselage and tailplane, the aircraft straddled U-535 with eight depth charges just abaft the conning tower and she sank with all hands. Due to the damage and one man being wounded by flak, the aircraft left the area immediately and returned to base. (Franks/Zimmerman)

1944

U-859. The boat was attacked by a Catalina (262 Sqdn RAF/L) in the Indian Ocean. One dead and three wounded. [Matrosenobergefreiter Hans Boldt]

U-763. U-763, having attacked convoy ETC-26 in the English Channel, managed to escape despite being hunted for 30 hours during which a staggering total of 550 depth charges were dropped. (Blair, vol 2, page 587)

U-741. Only a few hours after leaving port the boat was attacked by three Allied "destroyers", suffering minor damage. The boat eluded the pursuers and continued on patrol. (Blair, vol 2, page 602)

U-boats lost

1943: U-535 +
1944: U-233 , U-586 , U-642 , U-952 , U-390

135 men died when those 6 U-boats were lost on this date. 30 men survived.

Survivors from U-boats almost always landed in allied captivity.
U-boats marked with + were lost with all hands.

- For more information on U-boat losses check out our Fates section.

U-boat Men Lost or Wounded

There were no men lost from U-boats on this date, 5 July.

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Personnel Information

The following men were born on this day:
Hinrich-Oscar Bernbeck (1914), Wolfgang Hegewald (1917), Hans Hilbig (1917), Alois König (1920), Karl-Heinz Marbach (1917), Otto Salman (1908).

The following men died on this day:
Peter-Erich Cremer (1992), Helmut Ellmenreich (1943), Heinz Geissler (1944), Walter-Bruno Koch (1990), Wolfgang Römer (1972), Georg-Wilhelm Schulz (1986), Hans Steen (1944), Eberhard Zimmermann (1981).

See the entire U-boat commander listing showing all U-boat commanders.
We might include more officers (Allied and Axis) at a later date.

U-boat departures and arrivals on 5 July

This section shows the U-boat departures and arrivals from bases on this day of the year. Current country names shown with harbour names. Boats entering port display days at sea during that patrol.

1940

U-boats entering base:
To Bergen, Norway: U-62 (23 days)
To Kiel, Germany: U-51 (30 days)

1941

Sailed:
From Kiel, Germany: U-126
From Lorient, France: U-74

U-boats entering base:
To Lorient, France: U-79 (31 days)
To St. Nazaire, France: U-559 (32 days), U-751 (33 days)

1942

Sailed:
From Hamburg, Germany: U-592

U-boats entering base:
To Harstad U-251 (29 days)
To St. Nazaire, France: U-135 (71 days)

1943

Sailed:
From Brest, France: U-230, U-566, U-709
From Lorient, France: U-533 (lost 104 days later)

1944

Sailed:
From Bergen, Norway: U-278, U-1007, U-1061
From Brest, France: U-212 (lost 17 days later), U-741
From Flekkefjord: U-286
From Lorient, France: U-736 (lost 33 days later)
From Reval: U-481, U-748, U-1193
From Stavanger, Norway: U-299, U-319 (lost 11 days later)

U-boats entering base:
To Bergen, Norway: U-1001 (28 days), U-1007 (3 days), U-1061 (3 days), U-1165 (27 days)
To Boulogne U-671 (39 days)
To Brest, France: U-984 (15 days)
To Horten, Norway: U-863 (3 days)
To Trondheim, Norway: U-865 (16 days), U-1060 (3 days)

U-boats at sea on 5 July

Boats entering port on this day are not counted, but boats departing for patrol are. (+) indicates the boat was lost during this patrol.

1945

U-530, U-977.
2 boats at sea.

General Events on 5 July

1941

U-103 refuelled from the German supply ship Charlotte Schliemann at Las Palmas, Canary Isles.

1944

U-247 sank the British fishing boat Noreen Mary with gunfire (!) approx. 20 miles west of Cape Wrath, Scotland. This was a remarkable event for this stage of the war, when U-boats were continually harried by blanket Allied air cover.

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