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Apr 6, 2013 · Werner followed Commander Siegmann along with the crew to a U-boat familiarization (Baubelehrung) for a new boat in Oct and on 24 Oct 1942 they commissioned the new type VIIC boat U-230 at Kiel. On U-230 as First Watch Officer (1WO) young Ltn. Herbert A. Werner served on the boat for 171 days at sea during 4 patrols from Feb to Dec 1943.
Jan 6, 2022 · Of Germany’s 842 U-boats operational in the Second World War, no fewer than 779 were sunk—“iron coffins,” as Captain Herbert Werner called them, to some 28,000 submariners. Yet back in 1939 that outcome was anything but certain, indeed Winston Churchill stated in his war memoirs that “The only peril that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.”
Herbert Werner was a Kriegsmarine naval officer who (by his own reckoning), was one of only about "two dozen captains still alive" at the end of World War II. He served in five U-boats, as an Ensign, Executive Officer and Captain in the Atlantic Ocean, the English Channel, the North Sea, the Baltic, the Norwegian Sea and the Mediterannean.
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"Iron Coffins: A Personal Account of the German U-boat Battles of World War II" by Herbert A. Werner is a compelling memoir that offers readers a unique pers...
Taylor Zajonc. Brilliantly told and deeply tragic, Iron Coffins recounts the Battle of the Atlantic from the firsthand perspective of one of the few surviving German submarine captains. Herbert A. Werner’s service took him on multiple tours, including the Mediterranean and various battlegrounds in the Atlantic, where he sank ships, dodged sub ...
Jun 1, 2002 · Herbert A. Werner, one of the few surviving German U-boat commanders, served on five submarines from 1941 to 1945. From the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, from the English Channel to the North Sea, he takes the reader with him through the triumphant years of 1941 and 1942, when German U-boats nearly strangled England, to the apocalyptic final years of destruction, disillusionment, and defeat.
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Iron Coffins: A U-boat Commander's War, 1939-1945. The story of triumph, disaster and eventual survival - against all odds. Herbert Werner was one of the few U-boat commanders whose skill, daring and incredible luck saw him safely to the end of the war. His is an epic and chilling description of the fearful havoc wrought by one small U-boat on ...
