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U-333
THE STORY OF A U-BOAT ACE
(PETER CREMER)
Translated from the German by Lawrence Eilson
Up to 1943, with the German capital
ships blockaded and ineffective, the Germans were nonetheless winning the war
at sea: their U-boat arm had already sunk 12 million tons of merchant
shipping. In the month of November 1942
alone they sank 117 ships, comprising 700,000 tons. Meanwhile the Allies’ best technological
minds devised instruments and techniques to pinpoint and destroy the
predators. From May 1943 the hunters
became the hunted and the odds shortened on survival in the U-boat arm: on
British estimation, the life expectancy of a German submariner was reduced now
to 50 days. Out of 820 U-boats, 718 were
destroyed in action; out of 39,000 men, only 7,000 survived the war.
What gives flesh to these horrifying
statistics is this account by Peter ‘Ali’ Cremer of ‘his’ war. He was one of three senior U-boat commanders
to survive, finishing the war as commander of Dönitz’s bodyguard when the
U-Boat Commander-in-Chief took over from Hitler. Cremer evidently was a cat with nine lives –
and a remarkable ability to bring his U-boat back to base when it was so
rammed, bombed, depth-charged and bullet-riddled that it could barely
float. Few books convey the realities of
the U-boat war as graphically as U-333: it gives the reader an authentic
periscope’s-eye view of the Battle of the Atlantic.
This publication includes a
comprehensive list of German U-Boat casualties in World War II which includes
the cause of sinking and its position, where known.
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