K-Verband
Sign in to savethumb | right | Senior sailor Walter Gerhold - pilot of a one-man torpedo boat, the so-called "live torpedo", after the action. The K-Verband (German Kleinkampfverbände der Kriegsmarine, "small battle units") was a World War II German naval unit that operated a mixture of midget submarines and explosive speed boats. It was formed in April 1944 and operated until 26 April 1945.
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- Wehrmacht
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- Nazi Germany
- Conflict
- World War II
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- commanded by
- Albrecht Brandi
- crew members
- Fritz Frauenheim
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thumb | right | Senior sailor Walter Gerhold - pilot of a one-man torpedo boat, the so-called "live torpedo", after the action. The K-Verband (German Kleinkampfverbände der Kriegsmarine, "small battle units") was a World War II German naval unit that operated a mixture of midget submarines and explosive speed boats. It was formed in April 1944 and operated until 26 April 1945.
The miniature submarines were a mix of one and two-man craft. The Linsen explosive motorboats were operated in units of three with two boats carrying 660-800 lb of explosives and a third tasked with remotely controlling them during their final attack run.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “K-Verband” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.