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Ralf Reimar Wolfram

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Allegiance
  
Nazi Germany

Battles and wars
  
World War II

Name
  
Ralf-Reimar Wolfram


Battles/wars
  
World War II

Rank
  
Korvettenkapitan

Service/branch
  
Kriegsmarine

Ralf-Reimar Wolfram

Born
  
31 March 1912 Wilhelmshaven, Germany (
1912-03-31
)

Died
  
February 9, 1945, Norwegian Sea

Commands held
  
German submarine U-108, German submarine U-864

Ralf-Reimar Wolfram was a Korvettenkapitän during World War II. During his career he commanded two U-boats for a total of 118 days at sea spanning four patrols. During his third patrol he successfully sank the SS Robert Gray, an American liberty ship. Robert Gray was a straggler from convoy HX 234 en route to Britain.

For Wolfram's fourth patrol, he commanded U-864 during Operation Caesar. He was killed when his submarine was sunk by the British submarine, Venturer. This was the only known instance of one submerged submarine sinking another submerged submarine. U-864 remains Wolfram's grave to this day.

References

Ralf-Reimar Wolfram Wikipedia