Track And Field Records

Jurgen Oesten

Jurgen Oesten began his naval career in 1933, after completing training as a student official spent more than a year on the Admiral Graf Spee and Karlsruhe.Nel May 1937 was transferred to the U-Boot and here he received a valuable training before guerra.Nell 'became official in October 1937 on the EU-20 shooting. On 12 August 1939 it passed to command U-61. With the boat to carry out its first war patrol after 2 months of training in the last days of October 1939.Come result, following missions such as mine-laying, sank six ships for a total of 20,754 tonnellate.Dopo 8 missions of war left the boat and after a month passed to command U-106 (Class IXB). During his patrol from Germany to the new base in Lorient, U-106 sank two ships for a total of 13,640 tonnellate.In March 26, 1941, during the his second mission in the African waters torpedoed eight ships totaling 44,820 tons, Oesten Cavaliere.Durante received the Cross of the attack on the convoy SL-68, in a foggy day, thinking to torpedo a merchant in need of repair, damaged the British battleship HMS Malaya.Oesten let 's U-106 in October 1941 when he was appointed commander of the 9th Submarine Flotilla based in the French port of Brest.Successivamente in March 1942 he became chief of staff of the submarine North Sea with the responsibility of directing the war U-boat in Arctic waters. In July 1943 he left Normandy and September 2, 1943, passed to command U-861 (Class IX D2). On April 20, 1944 left Kiel and was named as his boat Monsun area of \u200b\u200boperations was the Indian Ocean and the areas east of it. The first war patrol in waters made Indian Oesten sank two navi.La next victim found in the south of Madagascar and before reaching Penang (September 23, sank a 'other vessel on the Somali coast, the boat passed five months at sea). On January 15, 1945, U-861 left Surabaya (Indonesia) with a good supply of basic necessities and only armed with two torpedoes for autodifesa.Durante return the boat collided with an iceberg south of Greenland, but with a good dose of luck Oesten reached Norway April 19, 1945 with only five barrels of fuel left in serbatoi.Fino Oesten to that point had sunk 19 ships for a Total 101,744 tonnellate.Alla date of June 2008, the current commander Jurgen Oesten is still alive.