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U-96
submarine
German
submarine U-96 was a Type VIIC U-boat of the German Navy
during World War II. Her keel was laid down on 16
September 1939.
Commissioned on 14 September 1940, U-96 was the very
first Type VIIC boat that saw action. She sunk 27 ships
totalling 181,206 gross register tons and damaging four
others totalling 33,043 GRT. She also caused one vessel
of 8,888 GRT to be declared a total loss.
U-96 took
part in eleven wolfpacks:
Hammer (5–12 August 1941)
Grönland (12–27 August 1941)
Kurfürst (28 August – 2 September 1941)
Seewolf (2–10 September 1941)
Stosstrupp (30 October – 4 November 1941)
Störtebecker (5–19 November 1941)
Benecke (19–22 November 1941)
Hecht (11 May – 18 June 1942)
Stier (29 August – 2 September 1942)
Vorwärts (3–25 September 1942)
Jaguar (10–20 January 1943)
During
1941, war correspondent Lothar-Günther Buchheim joined U-96 for
her seventh patrol. Over 5,000 photographs survived the
war. From his experiences, he wrote a short story The
Oak-Leaves Patrol and a 1973 novel which was to
become an international best-seller, Das Boot
(The Boat), followed in 1976 by U-Boot-Krieg
(U-Boat War), a nonfiction chronicle of the voyage.
In 1981, Wolfgang Petersen created the Oscar-nominated,
critically acclaimed film Das Boot based on
Buchheim's novel.
In 2019, Deep Water Studio released the video game UBOAT in early
access. UBOAT gives the player command of U-96 during
the Second World War.
U-96 is also featured as one of the five playable
submarines in the video game Wolfpack released by
Usurpator AP into early access in 2019.
The U-boat is also featured in the mobile game Azur
Lane in an anthropomorphised form.
The VIIC
was the workhorse of the German U-boat force in World
War II. They were effective fighting machine and seen in
almost all areas where the U-boat force operated. Type
VIIC was a slightly modified version of the successful
type VIIB boats. They had basically the same engine
layout and power, but were slightly larger and heavier.
U-96 survived war service, being decommissioned in
February 1945 and converted into a training
vessel. She was sunk one month later in March by Allied
bombs. The same replica of U-96 was used in Steven
Spielberg's 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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Learn more about the U-96
boat here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-96_(1940)
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