Bernd Klug

Bernd Klug (12 December 1914 – 15 June 1975) was an admiral in the West German Navy.

He received his training aboard the school ship SSS Gorch Fock and the light cruiser Karlsruhe.

Karlsruhe left Wilhelmshaven on 14 October 1933 returning to Kiel on 16 June 1934.

[1] Klug led E-boats on 28 April 1944 in an attack against Convoy T-4 consisting of LSTs during the Allied large-scale rehearsals for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, dubbed Exercise Tiger.

During the attack, German E-boats sank USS LST-507 and 531, and damaged 289, resulting in the deaths of 749 American servicemen.