Summary of career Ships sunk and damaged Map all coordinates using: OpenStreetMapДЄs commander of U-333 Cremer sank six merchant ships totalling 26,873 GRT, damaged another 8,327 GRT, and also engaged and damaged the 925 long tons (940В t) Flower-class corvette HMS Crocus.

Later he recounted his life in his books U-333: The story of a U-boat ace and U-Boat Commander: a periscope view of the Battle of the Atlantic. Peter-Erich Cremer appeared in Episode 10: 'Wolf Pack: U-Boats in the Atlantic' of the British television documentary The World at War in the early 1970s. In this role he was involved in the incident in which KapitГ¤n zur See Wolfgang LГјth was shot to death by a German sentry. As the War drew to a close, he was attached to the personal security unit of Karl DГ¶nitz. Citing 'several design flaws', Cremer scuttled the submarine at Kiel, on May 1945. On November 1944, Cremer, now Lieutenant Commander, aimed to convey the new submarine U-2519 Class XXI. He sailed again from 1943 until July 1944, before giving his boat to his lieutenant. On 31 January 1942 he mistakenly attacked and sunk the SS Spreewald he was court-martialed and found not guilty.ДЄfter several victorious trips, he received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross ( Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes) on 5 June 1942, and in that same year was severely wounded. He commanded the U-333 from 25 August 1941 to 6 October 1942 and again from, to 19 July 1944. He was promoted to the rank of submarine commander in August 1940, and was given the U-152. After serving on cruisers and destroyers, Cremer became captain in February 1940. After high school, Cremer enlisted in the Reichsmarine in 1932. Peter-Erich Cremer was born in Metz, Alsace-Lorraine, on 25 March 1911.

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