Kara Sea U-boat campaign

Kara Sea U-boat campaign
	Part of the Arctic campaign of the Second World War
	; U-255 at Narvik
Date	1 August 1943 – 4 October 1944
Location	Kara Sea
Result	Indecisive
Belligerents
Nazi Germany	Soviet Union
Strength
6 U-boats (1943)	Anti-submarine warfare units
Casualties and losses
2 U-boats sunk	1 corvette sunk; 6 minesweepers sunk; 5 merchant ships sunk; 1 merchant ship damaged; 2 survey vessels sunk; 1 salvage ship sunk; 1 motorboat sunk

The Kara Sea U-boat campaign was a German submarine operation in the Arctic waters of the Kara Sea during the Second World War. The plan was to repeat Operation Wunderland (16–30 August 1942) in Operation Husar. The Deutschland-class cruiser Lützow was to sortie into the Kara Sea with U-boats in support, to attack Soviet ships.

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