German_U-Boats

German U-Boats Each country in the war had an area which they excelled, and for the Germans that was the powerful U-boats with cannons, big guns and torpedos, sailing the Atlantic. There were many operations for U-boats during WWII. First we’ll discuss the Larconia incident. Larconia Incident A German U-boat (U-156) torpedoed a large target in the South Atlantic Ocean. A British liner (Larconia), carrying a 136-man crew, military material and personnel (268 men), about 80 civilians, and around 1800 Italian prisoners of war along with armed guards of 160 Polish soldiers sank at 2323 hours military time. Amazed to hear Italian voices, the commander, Kptlt. Werner Harenstien at once began a rescue mission for the people struggling in the sea and those in lifeboats. Offering to cease hostilities, he radioed an uncoded message to every vessel within hearing distance for help. In the days that followed Harenstien’s crew save about 400 survivors, half of which were brought on ship and the other half in u-boats, germans, survivors, rescue, lifeboats, larconia, water, people, italian, incident, help, boats, began, again, war, sea, radioed, pilot, order, operations, military, half, crew, atlantic, about, wwii, within, while, we’ll, werner, way, warship, voices, vessel, uncoded, u-boat, u-507