U-boat Archive

This website was created to make records and photographs available to those who want to learn more about the battle between Germany's U-boats and Allied anti-submarine forces during World War II.

	Latest Additions	Click to view
15 April 2009	The KTB for U-990's 4th war patrol has been added to the KTB section. This was a short but eventful patrol during which U-990 rescued survivors of U-476 and then was sunk after an attack by a British Liberator.
16 May 2009	The KTB for U-552's 9th war patrol has been added to the KTB section.
19 May 2009	Added a page of photos from MMC Celestine M. Urbaniak, USN, a member of the US Navy crew of U-977
27 August 2009	The KTB for U-109's 4th war patrol has been added to the KTB section.
14 September 2009	The KTB for U-172's 5th war patrol has been added to the KTB section.
20 September 2009	A new feature has been added to the KTB section which enables the reader to view the original German text for each page of a KTB. This was done to encourage discussion and feedback about the translations. Click the German flag at the bottom of each KTB page to vew the German text.
7 October 2009	A new section presenting US Navy Design Studies of surrendered German submarines has been added.

I use the this photograph of U-185 under attack as my computer desktop and folks have asked for the image so - click the icon to proceed to the desktop image download page