Kriegsmarine Wolf Packs....

[The Monkey God]

Hi Guys,

Just a quick one, can anyone tell me how many u boats there would have been in a `wolf pack`? That is if they had fixed numbers? I know next to nothing about there formations, so anything that might help would be of great interest.

[OvBacon]

Hi Guys,

Just a quick one, can anyone tell me how many u boats there would have been in a `wolf pack`? That is if they had fixed numbers? I know next to nothing about there formations, so anything that might help would be of great interest.

I can't just answer your question, but I know that these two sites have some pretty good info.

http://www.uboat.net/ - http://www.uboataces...-wolfpack.shtml

http://www.uboataces.com/

Edited February 1, 2010 by OvBacon

[Gordon Williamson]

Wolfpacks were "fluid" and didn't have a set number of boats attached. New boats could join a pack whilst others could leave. A Wolfpack on patrol could have other boats sent to join it if it detected a large convoy.

The Wolfpacks were not numbered but had code names like Mordbrenner (Arsonist), Uhlan (Lancer), Raubritter (Robber Baron)etc.

[The Monkey God]

Cheers chaps thats been of great help!!!!!!!

[Arromanches]

Cheers chaps thats been of great help!!!!!!!

Individual U-boats when they were ordered to operate together were not addressed in signals by their numbers but rather by the surnames of their Captains. Wolfpacks were still ordered to sea in the closing months of WW2. One group of eight U-boats was ordered to attack the apporaches to New York in April 1945 with another ordered off the Azores.