A ‘thank you’ document from U-189 to a town that befriended them. Within eight months of signing this paper, these men were dead along with the entire crew of U-189.

Type: IX-C40
Built by: AG Weser (Bremen)
Launched: 1 May 1942
Commissioned: 15 August 1942
Feldpost Nr.: M49106
Sunk: 23 April 1943
Sunk by: RAF A/C of 120 Squadron
Location sunk: SW of Iceland
Position sunk: 59.50N x 34.43W (all hands lost, 54 men)

U-189 was attached to the 4th U-Bootflotille upon commissioning, then to the 2nd U-Bootflotille at Lorient as a frontboot (combat boat). U-189 made only one patrol, and she was lost on this first patrol while operating against a convoy in the North Atlantic near Iceland.

U-189 attacked no ships during her short life.