| Entry Text: | KUROWSKI, Franz. U-48: The Most Successful U-Boat of the Second World War. 208p., illus., index. Barnsley: Frontline, 2011. ISBN: 9781848326064.
First published in Germany in 1986. In August 1939, U-48 left Germany, commanded by 'Vaddi' Schultze, to take up a waiting position around England. It scored its first success on 5 September 1939. By 1 August 1941, she had sunk 56 merchant ships of 322,478 gross tons and one corvette. She was then transferred to the Baltic as a training boat. U-48 was scuttled on 3 May 1945. |
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