Departure from Lorient on 29 May 1943.
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Arrival at Lorient on 16 Jul 1943.

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24 Jun 1943
Aircraft attack, aircraft shot down:
American PB4Y-1 Liberator BuNo 32046 (VB-103 USN/B-9, pilot Lt Hubert Kearsley Reese Jr, USNR)
0850hrs, SSE of Cape Farewell, Greenland: when the Liberator (misidentified as PBM Mariner flying boat) approached from astern, U-271 evaded by turning hard to port and opened AA fire at a distance of 800m (874 yards). The Germans observed hits to the cockpit and the fuselage just before four depth charges were dropped and the aircraft crashed in flames approx. 1500m (1 mile) away. They searched the area, but all ten aircrew had perished. The depth charges damaged some of the batteries, the compressors, the forward latrine, the hydrophones and three torpedoes stored in the bow compartment, but the U-boat was able to continue her patrol after the crew carried out repairs.

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