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
16 October 2008	British Interrogation Report for Battleship Bismarck
27 October 2008	Records of the interception and salvage of the MS Odenwald from which the first POW was taken by U.S. Forces in WWII
1 November 2008	British Interrogation Report for German Supply Ships
15 November 2008	British Interrogation Report for Raider 33 (Pinguin) and other German Raiders
30 January 2009	A new section of the website on individual U-boat KTBs has been added with KTB Notes intended to help the reader understand the content and language of KTBs. The first three KTBs posted are U-123 and U-130's Operation Drumbeat patrols and the follow-on patrol by U-123. Further KTBs are in work and will be added in the future.
8 February 2009	Photos and documents of Obermaschinenmaat Theo Hunkirchen's wartime service aboard minesweeper M-72, U-622 and U-450 and as a POW in British and American hands.
10 February 2009	British Interrogation Report for U-374
11 February 2009	British Interrogation Report for U-581
17 February 2009	British Interrogation Report for U-93
21 February 2009	British Interrogation Report for German E-Boat "S 38"
24 February 2009	British Interrogation Report for German R-Boat "R 184"
7 March 2009	Added Oberleutnant zur See Gerhard Peters' photographs of U-410 to the U-371 pages - made available by Nicolas Bracco
11 March 2009	British Interrogation Report for German Minelayer "Ulm"
22 March 2009	The KTB for U-100's 2nd war patrol has been added to the KTB section. This was one of the most successful U-boat patrols of the war.
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

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