U-675 Sunk. 24 May 1944.
U-675 was spotted and sunk in the North Sea west of Alesund, Norway, by a Sunderland on training duty, aircraft ‘R’ of RAF No. 4 OTU. The flying boat was captained by Flight Lieutenant F. P. Frizell, RAAF, and manned by a scratch crew of instructors and trainees. The crew of U-675 were themselves inexperienced, being on their first patrol. They were all lost.
The forward platform found on the Turm VI conversions (U-675 & similar) was later removed as it was not a success. It slowed diving times and did was not cost-effective against aircraft. Indeed the whole idea of staying on the surface to duel with attacking aircraft almost guaranteed the loss of the U-boat.
Modelling U-673 “Flak-trap” -as U-675 was the same
