In de Middellandse Zee westelijk van Haifa bij de ondergang van U-Boot 97 omgekomen.
Seven U-boats in the Mediterranean waters reported successes in June, during the Allied run-up to Husky.
The veteran U-97, commanded by Hans-Georg Trox, age twenty-seven, patrolling the Eastern Mediterranean near Haifa, sank two ships: the 9,000-ton British tanker Athelmonarch and the 1,200-ton Dutch freighter Palima. Trox did not live long enough to celebrate.
British forces in the Eastern Mediterranean coverged on the site of these sinkings to hunt down U-97. In the afternoorn of June 16, a Hudson of Australian Squadron 459, piloted by David T.Barnard, spotted U-97 on the surface and stradled her from very low altitude with four depth charges. The explosion of one missile , a direct hit, battered the Hudson, damaging both wings, the fuselage (over one hundred holes), ant the tail. Barnard took photos of the sinking U-boat, then limped to base. British ships rescued twenty-one Germans, but Trox and about twenty-six others persished.
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