From Wikipedia.
Some more on the death of Hans-Gunther Lange back in April 2014 which I wrote about earlier today.
Laid down in Hamburg, Germany on 31 July 1941. Type VIIC U-boat. Launched 25 June 1942. Commissioned 26 September 1942. Went on 12 war patrols and sank one ship, one warship and damaged another warship. Hans-Gunther Lange commanded the ship its whole career.
The U-711 sank the HMS Bluebelle on 17 February 1945 for its biggest victory.
Sunk May 4, 1945 in Arctic Ocean near Harstad, Norway, by aerial bombs from British escort carriers HMS Searcher, Trumpeter and Queen. There were 40 deaths and 12 survivors.
On the day it was sunk, the U-711 had been damaged earlier during an attack by Avenger aircraft from the escort carriers in Operation Judgement which was aimed at sinking the German depot ships Black Watch and Senje.
Only a few hours before the attack, Lange had received orders from Germany for all U=boats to cease attacks on Allied shipping. The 40 crew members who died that day had gone on board the Black watch and died when it was sunk.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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