Patrol info for U-652
| 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 Gerhard Ady |
WO sea training Hellmut Rehren |
WO sea training Fridtjof Heckel |
Daily positions, sinkings and allied attacks during the patrol of U-652
We have 28 daily positions for the 27 days U-652 was at sea.
Departure from Trondheim on 23 Aug 1941.
24 Aug 1941 - 25 Aug 1941 - 26 Aug 1941 - 27 Aug 1941 - 28 Aug 1941 - 29 Aug 1941 - 30 Aug 1941 - 31 Aug 1941 - 1 Sep 1941 - 2 Sep 1941 - 3 Sep 1941 - 4 Sep 1941 - 5 Sep 1941 - 6 Sep 1941 - 7 Sep 1941 - 8 Sep 1941 - 9 Sep 1941 - 10 Sep 1941 - 11 Sep 1941 - 12 Sep 1941 - 13 Sep 1941 - 14 Sep 1941 - 15 Sep 1941 - 16 Sep 1941 - 17 Sep 1941 -
Arrival at Lorient on 18 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 during this patrol
| Date | U-boat | Commander | Name of ship | Tons | Nat. | Convoy | Map | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Aug 1941 | U-652 | Georg-Werner Fraatz |  | HMS Southern Prince (M 47) (d.) | 10,917 |  | br | A | |
| 10 Sep 1941 | U-652 | Georg-Werner Fraatz | Tahchee (d.) | 6,508 | | br | SC-42 | B | |
| 10 Sep 1941 | U-652 | Georg-Werner Fraatz | | Baron Pentland (d.) | 3,410 | | br | SC-42 | C |
| 20,835 | |||||||||
3 ships damaged (20,835 tons). Legend | |||||||||
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.