"Unterseeboot 405" was a Type VIIC
Commissioned on 17 September 1941, commanded by Korvettenkapitän Rolf-Heinrich Hopmann, she was rammed and sunk by the destroyer USS|Borie|DD-215 on 1 November 1943. All hands were lost.
External links
* [http://www.uboat.net/boats/u405.htm U-405 at U-Boat.net]
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