U-546 was sunk by aircraft of USS Bogue, USS Core and the destroyer escorts, USS Nuenzer, Flaherty, Davis, Pillsbury, Varian, Janssen, Hubbard, Chatelain, Cockrill and Kieth April 25, 1945

Flaherty, Hayter Otter and Otterstetter conducted rescue operations for the torpedoed Davis on 24 April 1945

 

DEs rescue U-546 survivors


 

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Commander Task Group 22.8, Special Operation and Action Report
Enclosure A
Excerpt from War Diary of CTG 22.8
Enclosure B
USS Varian, Action Report - Concerns attacks on U-546
Enclosure C
USS Hubbard, Action Report - Concerns attacks on U-546
Enclosure D
USS Hayter, Action Report - Concerns rescue operations for USS Davis, includes a preliminary report on her sinking
Enclosure E
USS Otter, Action Report - Concerns rescue operations for USS Davis
USS Flaherty, Action Report - Concerns rescue operations for USS Davis and attacks on U-546
Commander Task Unit 22.7.1, Action Against Enemy Submarine - Report of
USS Varian, Information from Prisoners of War including translated diaries
Commander Task Unit 22.7.1, Letter to Commander Task Group 22.3 Concering Sub Kill, U-546
Photographs of USS Davis sinking and survivors
Photographs taken during the attacks on U-546
Photographs of POWs aboard USS Bogue
Naval Messages from Op-16-Z interrogators LCDR Hatton & Alberti to COMINCH CDR Knowles
Draft Interrogation Report for the Survivors of U-546 Sunk 24 April, 1945 (Was not published but would have been O.N.I. 250-G/Serial 47- the last interrogation report of the German series)