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| Keywords: U 534 under attack 5 May 1945.jpg The German U-boat U 534 a type IXC/40 submarine commanded by Kapitanleutnant Herbert Nollau ploughs through the water attempting to evade the attack of a Consolidated Liberator G of 86 Squadron RAF Coastal Command U 534 was earlier attacked by another Liberator which it shot down with no survivors The submarine was sunk east of Anholt Island Denmark after being attacked by Liberator G with a total of ten depth charges This action for which the captain Warrant Officer J D Nicol RAF was awarded a DFC occurred in a 24 hour period in which five German U-boats were sunk U534's sinking resulted in three dead and 49 survivors from its crew They were rescued by lifeboats from a lightship in the vicinity <br> On 5 May 1945 for unknown reasons the captain of U 534 ignored the order to surrender issued to all U-boats by Admiral Dönitz and set course for Norway instead To this day mystery still surrounds U-534's refusal to surrender U 534 was raised in 1993 and is on display at Birkenhead near Liverpool UK P02528 002 1945-05-05 Australian armed forces Image copyright Copyright expired - public domain frame cropped PD-Australia U-534 submarine 1942 Black and white photographs No 86 Squadron RAF | ||||
