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RE: Greatest U-Boat Battle / Confrontation?
Posted by: Marc Haldimann ()
Date: April 06, 2001 10:42AM

<HTML>Hi Woody,

Thogh it might be narrated elswhere, I know of the action Fin mentions through
Clay Blair\'s \"Hitler\'s U-boat war\", Vol. II, p 363-364.


In substance Kapitzky and his crew managed to fight off for a full week dozens of USN airplanes who attacked U-615, since first sighted on 29 July 1943, until her sinking on 7 August 1943. By doing so, the crew of U-615 shot down a PBM-3 Mariner (VP 205, piloted by A. R. Matuski) and damaged another one of VP-204, killing it\'s pilot, John W. Dreschbach. There were no less than 6 Mariners and a Harpoon from the Navy besides one B-18 from the Army to finally sink U-615. USS Walker rescued 43 Ubootmänner.

Regards

Marc</HTML>

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