Foreign U-Boats
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Foreign U-Boats was the title for a special section created by the Nazi German Kriegsmarine that adopted 14 captured allied submarines into the U-Boat corps. Beginning in 1939 and lasting until the end of World War II in 1945, the German Navy modified a total of 14 captured allied submarines, then deployed them into combat with German crews. The special corps was not especially successful, as only 9 allied ships were destroyed by Foreign U-Boats through the entire war, 7 of those having been destroyed by U-A. [1] [2]
[edit] Countries from which the captured submarines came
- U-A: Turkey
- U-B: British
- U-C1: Norway
- U-C2: Norway
- U-D1: Netherlands
- U-D2: Netherlands
- U-D3: Netherlands
- U-D4: Netherlands
- U-D5: Netherlands
- U-F1: France
- U-F2: France
- U-F3: France
- UIT-22: Italy
- UIT-23: Italy
- UIT-24: Italy
- UIT-25: Italy
