Home Leave in Germany

2nd November 1944: A U-boat captain finds his home country reeling from the bombing and the new threat from the East - but then it gets worse

U.S. Fortress over Brest - much bombed Atlantic U-Boat Base in 1943. “Brest is one of the principal German U-boat bases on the French Atlantic coast, and has frequently been the target for heavy bombers.”

Herbert A. Werner¹ had captained the last U-boat to leave the German base in Brest, France. U-953 had narrowly escaped RAF bunker-busting bombs. She was…