March 17

Aboard the HMS Walker in the North Atlantic • March 17, 1941 On this date in 1941 U-99, skippered by Otto Kretschmer, one of Germany’s most famous U‑boat com­manders, had just fired the last of her tor­pedoes when she was spotted by a British destroyer south­east of Ice­land in the North Atlantic. By this time Kretsch­mer,…

Aboard the HMS Walker in the North Atlantic · March 17, 1941 On this date in 1941 U-99, skippered by Otto Kretschmer, one of Ger­many’s most famous U‑boat com­manders, had just fired the last of her tor­pedoes when she was spotted by a Brit­ish de­stroyer south­east of Ice­land. By this time Kretsch­mer, on his eighth…