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* The U-180 is the submarine carrying [[Nazi]] leader, [[Martin Bormann]] to [[South America]] in the [[Jack Higgins]] thriller, Thunder Point. |
* The U-180 is the submarine carrying [[Nazi]] leader, [[Martin Bormann]] to [[South America]] in the [[Jack Higgins]] thriller, Thunder Point. |
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Revision as of 10:57, 24 February 2007
Unterseeboot 180 or U-180 was a German Type IX D-1 U-boat or submarine used during World War II. Her keel was laid in February 1941 at AG Weser yard in Bremen, and she was launched in May 1942.
Type IX
The U-180 was used primarily in spook operations (i.e. spying) and was not meant to be a conventional attack submarine, as part of the 4th and 12 Flottille. With her torpedo tubes removed, she could transport up to 252 tonnes of freight.
Fate
She was reported sunk off the Bay of Biscay with 56 crew on 23 August 1944 while enroute to Japan. The official verdict is "sunk by a mine", however some experts speculate that schnorkel trouble may have been the cause.
Famous operation
Her most famous spook operation was to transfer the Indian leader, Subhas Chandra Bose to a Japanese submarine I-29, as part of his journey from Nazi Germany to Japan under Captain Werner Musenberg in April, 1943.
Media
- The U-180 is the submarine carrying Nazi leader, Martin Bormann to South America in the Jack Higgins thriller, Thunder Point.