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2 unusual facts about Gunther Prien


Churchill Barriers

On 14 October 1939, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Royal Oak was sunk at her moorings within the natural harbour of Scapa Flow in a nighttime attack by the German U-boat U-47 under the command of Günther Prien.

Klaus Bargsten

While on the subject of signals, Bargsten spoke of a message that Dönitz sent to Günther Prien on the occasion of the birth of Prien’s daughter.


Spanish submarine G-7

In 1958, as one of the few U-boats still in existence, G-7 was used in the German war film U 47 – Kapitänleutnant Prien about Gunther Prien and his U-47.


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