German submarine U-326

German submarine U-326 was a Type VIIC/41 U-boat of the Nazi German Kriegsmarine during World War II.

She carried out one patrol but sank or damaged no ships.

The boat was sunk in May 1945 in the Bay of Biscay by an American aircraft.

Service history
The submarine was laid down on 26 April 1943 by the Flender Werke yard at Lübeck as 'werk' 326, launched on 22 April 1944 and commissioned on 6 June under the command of Kapitänleutnant Peter Matthes.

She served with the 4th U-boat Flotilla for training, from 6 June 1944 to 28 February 1945. She was then transferred to the 11th flotilla for operations on 1 March.

Patrol
Having carried out a series of short voyages between Kiel in Germany and Horten, Stavanger and Bergen in Norway in February and March 1945, U-326 departed Bergen on 28 March and passing western Scotland and Ireland, entered the Bay of Biscay.

Fate
The boat was sunk by a homing torpedo dropped from an American B-24 Liberator west of Brest on 25 April 1945.

Forty-three men died; there were no survivors.