Operation Details

Geier (ii)

'Geier' (ii) was a U-boat three-part wolfpack operation in the Atlantic off the Iberian peninsula using boats which had previously been part of the of the 'Trutz' wolfpack (30 June/15 July 1943).

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The 'Geier I' wolfpack comprised U-228, U-603, U-608 and U-641, and neither lost any of its own number nor sank any ship.

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The 'Geier II' wolfpack comprised U-211, U-435, U-951 and U-953, lost Korvettenkapitän Siegfried Strelow’s U-435 and Kapitänleutnant Kurt Pressel’s U-951, and sank no ship.

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The 'Geier III' wolfpack comprised U-232, U-336 and U-642, and for the loss of Kapitänleutnant Ernst Ziehm’s U-232 sank no ship.

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The three 'Geier' wolfpacks headed slowly from their concentration area to the south of the Azores islands group toward Portugal on the European mainland. As they do so, between 7 and 9 July, U-951 and U-232 were sunk by Consolidated B-24 Liberator long-range maritime reconnaissance bombers of the USAAF’s 1st and 2nd Anti-Submarine Squadrons, while U-603 was damaged by a Consolidated Catalina flying boat of the RAF’s No. 202 Squadron and U-435 was sunk by a Vickers Wellington medium-range maritime reconnaissance bomber of the RAF’s No. 179 Squadron.

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