Qualla: German Submarine U-565 https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-565 en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: German Submarine U-565 https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-565 German Submarine U-565: Introduction https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-565/ In late September 1944, the war in Greece was ending. German forces were withdrawing, Allied aircraft controlled the skies, and U-565 — a submarine that had spent more than two years patrolling the Mediterranean — had nowhere left to go. On 19 September, US aircraft bombed her in the waters near Skaramanga, a shipyard and port on the Attic coast west of Athens. A second attack followed on 24 September. The damage was beyond repair. On 30 September 1944, her crew scuttled her in Skaramanga Bay. She has been on the seafloor ever since.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/x/german-submarine-u-565-wp/sw8x-german-submarine-u-565-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full German Submarine U-565: Built for a Navy at War https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-565/ U-565 was a Type VIIC U-boat, the most common class of German submarine built during the Second World War. She was laid down at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg on 30 March 1940, launched on 20 February 1941, and commissioned on 10 April 1941 under Oberleutnant Johann Jebsen....

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/x/german-submarine-u-565-wp/sw8x-german-submarine-u-565-three-years-in-the-mediterranean.mp3 0:06 3 full German Submarine U-565: The End at Skaramanga https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-565/ By late 1944, Germany's position in Greece had become untenable. Allied forces were advancing and the Axis occupation of Greece, which had brought catastrophic suffering to the Greek population since 1941, was collapsing. U-565 had been operating in a sea increasingly dominated b...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/x/german-submarine-u-565-wp/sw8x-german-submarine-u-565-the-end-at-skaramanga.mp3 0:06 4 full German Submarine U-565: A Wreck in the Gulf https://qualla.com/german-submarine-u-565/ Skaramanga Bay sits on the western edge of the Attic coast, part of the greater Athens metropolitan area. The shipyard at Skaramanga has a long industrial history; today it is a significant facility. U-565 lies somewhere in those waters, one of many Second World War wrecks scatte...

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