Heinz Bielfeld, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Heinz Bielfeld

German navy officer and world war II U-boat commander

Date of Birth: 30-Aug-1916

Place of Birth: Tianjin, China

Date of Death: 11-Jul-1944

Profession: submariner, soldier

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

German submarine U-703 was a Type VIIC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine deployed during the Second World War against allied shipping in the Arctic Ocean.
She was a successful boat, which had a far longer service life than most other U-boats, primarily due to the restricted zone of operations in which she fought.
Her main mission during the war was to target the Arctic Convoys which carried supplies to the Soviet Union from Britain.
At this she was quite successful in her three years of raiding until her presumed demise in 1944. U-703 was built at Hamburg in Northern Germany on the North Sea.
She was completed in the autumn of 1941, and given to the experienced Kapitänleutnant Heinz Bielfeld to command.
He took her on her working-up period in which the boat was tested and the crew trained in the Baltic Sea and around the German held coastlines, before being dispatched to Narvik in Norway for her first war patrol in April 1942.