A U441 u-flak1 uboat for Fs9 and CFS2 by Shessi
U441 was commissioned as a standard type VIIC uboat in Feb 1942. The type VIIC being the most common type of uboat of WWII. U441 had a career through 1942-43 as a training and operational uboat.
Due to the increasingly successful attacks by allied aircraft on uboats in the Bay of Biscay, Admiral Dönitz ordered U-441 to be rebuilt as a flak-uboat blockade runner in May 1943, as U-flak1. It had 1x 37mm and 2x quad 20mm (8 x 20 mm) anti aircraft guns fitted, along with some MG42 machine guns.
After several successes of shooting down Coastal Command aircraft she herself was damaged and suffered a loss of crew due to these exchanges. In July 1943 Dönitz realised that this type of anti-aircraft uboat was not the answer, and so U441 u-flak1 was re-built as an standard type VIIC uboat.
After 10 more war patrols she was finally sunk in the English Channel on the 8th June 1944, with some irony, by a Coastal Command Liberator G of 224 Sqn.
U441 was commissioned as a standard type VIIC uboat in Feb 1942. The type VIIC being the most common type of uboat of WWII. U441 had a career through 1942-43 as a training and operational uboat.
Due to the increasingly successful attacks by allied aircraft on uboats in the Bay of Biscay, Admiral Dönitz ordered U-441 to be rebuilt as a flak-uboat blockade runner in May 1943, as U-flak1. It had 1x 37mm and 2x quad 20mm (8 x 20 mm) anti aircraft guns fitted, along with some MG42 machine guns.
After several successes of shooting down Coastal Command aircraft she herself was damaged and suffered a loss of crew due to these exchanges. In July 1943 Dönitz realised that this type of anti-aircraft uboat was not the answer, and so U441 u-flak1 was re-built as an standard type VIIC uboat.
After 10 more war patrols she was finally sunk in the English Channel on the 8th June 1944, with some irony, by a Coastal Command Liberator G of 224 Sqn.
