Really enjoying this series even if the onshore subplot is a bit lame and superfluous. My own little random U-Boat story was when I used to go back to Austria as a child to see our extended family, we always stayed at a family friends house, a lovely old clockmaker who was a former U-Boat sailor in the war.
Being a keen young historian I always used to ask him about his time on U-Boats and he’d always fob me off with a story about capturing a shot down Mustang pilot when he was home on leave. Once I asked him again (well I was 8!) when he was having a beer with his old veteran buddies and they all laughed loudly at my suggestion that he finally tells a few stories about his time on U-Boats.
So he died only a few years back and my dad told me that our friend was actually in the Waffen SS, not the U-Boat service. Kind of makes sense now.....