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BOAT U-107 # U-2009 Attacks on this boat28 Jul 1943
While sailing with another boat from Lorient the boats were attacked by aircraft but managed to repell them without damages. (Sources: Blair, vol 2, page 387.) 4 Jan 1944
At 19.34 hours, the inbound boat fought off a four-engined aircraft in the Bay of Biscay. No bombs dropped, one crewman slightly wounded by strafing. (Sources: Ritschel) 7 Jan 1944
Between 00.08 and 01.20 hours, the inbound boat was attacked four times by aircraft identified as Liberators and replied each time with its AA guns, while the nearby U-621 fired on an aircraft without being attacked herself at 00.10 hours. All bombs missed U-107 astern and the boat suffered no damage. Probably three aircraft attacked U-107 that night, a Canadian Wellington (407 Sqdn RCAF/J, pilot F/O Jordan), a British Halifax (502 Sqdn RAF/F, pilot F/O J.H. Spurgeon) and a second Halifax (53 Sqdn RAF, pilot F/L E.B.A. Le Maistre, RCAF) which was badly damaged by AA fire after hits in the bomb bay and the control surfaces. (Sources: Franks/Zimmerman) 3 recorded attacks on this boat. General notes on this boat29 Mar 1941.U-107 under Kptlt. Günther Hessler put out from Lorient, France at 19:30 on 29 March, 1941 for what would become the most successful patrol of the entire war against allied merchant shipping. She left the base along with U-94 commanded by Kptlt. Kuppisch but then U-107 headed southwards. Her operational area was around the Canary Islands and nearby Freetown where she sank 14 ships for a total of 86,699 tons, starting with the British merchant SS Eskdene which required some 2 torpedoes and 104 rounds from the heavy 105mm fast firing deck cannon. The largest ship sunk during that patrol was the British Calchas of 10,305 tons. On 1 June, 1941 they sank the British U-boat-trap Alfred Jones of 5,013 tons. On 3 and 4 of May U-107 refuelled from the German support ship Nordmark. There they also met U-105. Five days later they took on board 14 torpedoes and some food, fuel and water from the support ship Egerland. The boat returned to Lorient on 2 July 1941. Kptlt. Hessler married Karl Dönitz's daughter, Ursula, in November 1937. At that time Hessler was serving on the torpedo boats but in April 1940 he joined the U-boat force. Because Hessler was his son-in-law Donitz had trouble giving Hessler his deserved Knights Cross and eventually Grand Admiral Raeder signed the papers. Schnorchel-fitted U-boat
This boat was fitted with a Schnorchel underwater-breathing apparatus and sailed equipped with it in May 1944 but it was of course installed prior to that date.
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