Unterseeboot 180
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Unterseeboot 180 or U-180 was a German Type IX D-1 U-boat or submarine used during World War II. Her keel was laid in February 1941 at AG Weser yard in Bremen, and she was launched in May 1942.
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[edit] Type IX
The U-180 was used primarily in spook operations (i.e. spying) and was not meant to be a conventional attack submarine, as part of the 4. Unterseebootsflottille and 12. Unterseebootsflottille. With her torpedo tubes removed, she could transport up to 252 tonnes of freight.
[edit] Fate
She was reported sunk off the Bay of Biscay with 56 crew on 23 August 1944 while enroute to Japan. The official verdict is "sunk by a mine", however some experts speculate that schnorkel trouble may have been the cause.
[edit] Famous operation
Her most famous spook operation was to transfer the Indian leader, Subhas Chandra Bose to a Japanese submarine I-29, as part of his journey from Nazi Germany to Japan under Captain Werner Musenberg in April, 1943.
[edit] Media
- The U-180 is the submarine carrying Nazi leader, Martin Bormann to South America in the Jack Higgins thriller, Thunder Point.
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