Werner was promoted and sent to U-boat school for training, before joining U-612 in April 1942 as first watch officer under Paul Siegmann. in April 1941 he was appointed watch officer to U-557 under Ottokar Paulssen and carried out three war patrols with her, from April to November 1941, during which he was involved in a number of engagements and took part in the sinking of five merchant ships. He joined the navy in 1939 as an officer candidate and became a midshipman ( Fahnrich zur see) in November 1940. Herbert Werner was born in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1920. Werner subsequently wrote a best-selling memoir of life in the U-boat service, entitled Iron Coffins. He moved to the United States in 1957 and became an American citizen. ContentsĪt the end of the war, he was detained in turn by British, American and French troops before making his way back to Germany in late autumn 1945. He survived the sinking of U-612 in the Baltic and the loss of U-415 in Brest harbour. He served in five U-boats, as an Ensign, Executive Officer and Captain in the Atlantic Ocean, the English Channel, the North Sea, the Baltic, the Norwegian Sea and the Mediterranean. Werner ( – 6 April 2013) was a Kriegsmarine officer who, by his own reckoning, was one of only about "two dozen captains still alive" at the end of World War II.
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