Download or read book U-boat Operations of the Second World War: Career histories, U1-U510 written by Kenneth G. Wynn and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1997 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of two volumes covering the career histories of all of the U-boats which saw action in World War II. The histories of some 1200 vessels are covered and each entry aims to be easily accessible. Every aspect of a boat's activities are covered, from laying the keel to its ultimate fate. Each entry gives locations and dates of units and any boats served with, commanders, number of patrols undertaken, ships sunk along with names of vessels and locations, incidents of note, re-fuelling by U-tankers and supply ships, attacks on shipping, survivors picked up and finally the ultimate fate. Appendices allow cross-referencing and contain such material as Deutsches Feldpost Numbers.