Patrol info for U-652
Date lookup for 4 Sep 1941
| Departure | Arrival / Fate | Duration | ||
| 23 Aug 1941 | Trondheim | 18 Sep 1941 | Lorient | 27 days |
Commander | Officers * | ||||
 Oblt. Georg-Werner Fraatz |
1WO Oblt. Gerhard Remus |
2WO Karl-Heinz Laudahn |
WO sea training Fridtjof Heckel |
WO sea training Gerhard Ady |
WO sea training Hellmut Rehren |
U-652's position on 4 Sep 1941
Wolfpack operations during this patrol
U-652 operated with the following Wolfpacks during this patrol
Markgraf (27 Aug 1941 - 16 Sep 1941)
Ships hit by U-652 on this date
General Events during this patrol
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Attacks on U-652 during this patrol
4 Sep 1941
On 4 September 1941 a British bomber signalled the American destroyer USS Greer that a U-boat was in the vicinity. Greer picked up a sonar contact at close range and started to track the boat. The aircraft dropped four depth charges and then left the scene. Shortly afterwards U-652 fired a torpedo at the US warship, perhaps believing she was responsible. Greer then went on the attack, and a two hour battle followed, during which she dropped 19 depth charges and the U-boat fired another torpedo - no damage to either side. President Roosevelt used this event in his campaign to convince the US to go to war against Germany, and the "undeclared war" between U-boats and US escorts escalated dramatically from this point.
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* These are officers that later became commanders themselves.