Werner Hartenstein
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Werner Hartenstein was a German naval officer during World War II who commanded the U-boat U-156. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, the highest award in the military and para
Werner Hartenstein with KC
torpedo boat Jaguar
The heavily damaged USS Blakeley
U-156 (foreground) and U-507 (background) on 15 September 1942
Consolidated PBY Catalina
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The Consolidated Model 28, more commonly known as the PBY Catalina, is an American flying boat and amphibious aircraft designed by Consolidated Aircraft in the 1930s and 1940s. In U.S. Army service, i
Werner Hartenstein
…force that forbade rescuing the survivors of sunken ships. Hartenstein and the entire crew of U-156 were killed in action by depth charges from a US PBY Catalina aircraft on 8 March 1943. Hartenstein was born in Plauen in the Vogtland of the Kingdom of Saxony, then a federated state of the German Empire, on 27…
A Canadian built Canso A representing a United States Army Air Forces OA-10 operated in the UK.
PBY waist gunner mounting port side gun blister (1942)
Two technicians servicing the Twin Wasp engine of a Catalina, August 1942
A radar-equipped PBY-5A from VP-6(CG) over Greenland, in 1945