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Re: Knight Cross
Posted by:
Ken Dunn
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Date: September 01, 2007 08:33PM
Hi Sam,
According to the member’s area here at uboat.net all ships sunk by U-667 (total 10,000 tons) were sunk by Karl-Heinz Lange not Heinrich-Andreas Schroeteler.
In the last days of the war Heinrich Schroeteler in U-1023 damaged a British tanker of 7,345 tons and on the evening of 7 (!) May 1945 sank the Norwegian minesweeper NYMS 382 (335 tons). Three days later Schroeteler surrendered U-1023 at Weymouth. He then spent three years in British captivity.
He was awarded the Knight’s Cross 2 May, 1945 - 5 days before he sank the Norwegian minesweeper, the first and only ship he sank. The Knight's Cross must have been awarded for something other than tonnage.
Regards,
Ken Dunn
According to the member’s area here at uboat.net all ships sunk by U-667 (total 10,000 tons) were sunk by Karl-Heinz Lange not Heinrich-Andreas Schroeteler.
In the last days of the war Heinrich Schroeteler in U-1023 damaged a British tanker of 7,345 tons and on the evening of 7 (!) May 1945 sank the Norwegian minesweeper NYMS 382 (335 tons). Three days later Schroeteler surrendered U-1023 at Weymouth. He then spent three years in British captivity.
He was awarded the Knight’s Cross 2 May, 1945 - 5 days before he sank the Norwegian minesweeper, the first and only ship he sank. The Knight's Cross must have been awarded for something other than tonnage.
Regards,
Ken Dunn
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