| Born | 20 Aug 1914 | Hamburg | |
| Died | 17 Oct 1943 | (29) | Cape Farewell |
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U-boat Commands
| U-boat | From | To | |
|---|---|---|---|
| U-333 | 9 Oct 1942 | 22 Nov 1942 | 1 patrol (15 days) |
| U-540 | 10 Mar 1943 | 17 Oct 1943 (+) | 1 patrol (14 days) |
During 1941 Kasch served as gunnery officer of the famous raider Atlantis.
On 9 Oct, 1942 Kasch took command of the very heavily damaged U-333 from Peter Cremer who has very seriously wounded from battle with HMS Crocus. Kasch was stationed on the U-107 and transferred over to the damaged boat with the intention of taking her home to France (Blair, 1998).
A day out of France on Oct 21 the surfaced boat was attacked by former German U-570, then operating as British HMS Graph, but alert crew managed to avert disaster.
Kasch, having successfully completed his mission, left the boat for Germany to take command of a new type IX boat - the U-540.
Sources
Blair, C. (1998). Hitler’s U-boat War. The Hunted, 1942-1945.
Busch, R. and Röll, H-J. (1998). German U-boat commanders of World War II.
Patrol info for Lorenz Kasch
| U-boat | Departure | Arrival | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | U-333 | 9 Oct 1942 | *at sea* | 23 Oct 1942 | La Pallice | Patrol 1, | 15 days | |
| 2. | U-540 | 11 Sep 1943 | Kiel | 14 Sep 1943 | Bergen | 4 days | ||
| 3. | U-540 | 4 Oct 1943 | Bergen | 17 Oct 1943 | Sunk | Patrol 2, | 14 days | |
| 2 patrols, 29 days at sea | ||||||||
About ranks and decorations
Ranks shown in italics are our database inserts based on the rank dates of his crew comrades. The officers of each crew would normally have progressed through the lower ranks at the same rate.
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