Lets see your UBoat Soldbuch or Wehrpaß

[collani]

Hello Eric-Jan,<O</O
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thank you for starting this thread! I will help this thread with an Soldbuch from a former crew member of the east asia Monsun u-boat U 195.

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U 195 was one of the only two large type IXD1 u-boats wich where build (U 180 and U 195). Matrosenobergefreiter Lück served also for a short time on U 180 (see entry on page 3, Feldpostnr. M 44013 = U 180, signed by cmdr. Oblt. zur See Rolf Riesen). U 195 left Bordeaux for his second war patrol on 24. August 1944 and arrived at Batavia 127 days later on 28. Dezember 1944.

Normaly U-boat Soldbücher were left at the base when the boat went on patrol. But the crew of U 195 gets there books from the flottila staff on board, because they left the base Bordeaux as one of the last u-boats, shortly before the allied troops reach the base!

[collani]

Matrosenobergefreiter Lück was awarded in east asia with the u-boat badge and the u-boat clasp in Bronze on 17. Januar 1945, the entrys are signed by the commander Oberleutnant zur See Friedrich Steinfeld.<O</O
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There is also an rare entry on page 25 from the “Marine-Stützpunkt Soerabaja, 7.5.1945”. The crew of U 195 are the only monsun boat crew who carries Soldbücher in east asia!<O</O
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Greetings,<O</O
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collani

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[collani]

award document, signed by Fregattenkapitän Wilhelm Dommes, Chef im Südraum, at the german naval base in Penang, 1945.

[desiro]

Hi Eric,details for Maschinemaat Bruhns,he took part in the most sucessful sailing when 3 ships were sunk and awarded EK11 on the uboats return.

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[desiro]

Maschinen-gefreiten Kittelmann, he was on all war patrols,lots of documents for him.

[desiro]

Kittelmann

[Eric JB]

Hi Desiro,

Thank you very much for all the extra details of your U 654 crewmembers, that extra information makes it just so more interesting.

yours friendly

Eric-Jan

[Eric JB]

Dear Collani,

Well you know how to get a smile on my face.

You know how much I like those Monsun Uboats that went to the far East and the former Dutch-Indies.

Collani : the King of the Monsun Uboats, shows us here a very fine example of his great collection.

What a great contribution to this thread your U 195 Soldbuch is.

First time that I see a Soldbuch that was taken onboard an Uboat, and because of that it does have that very rare Soerabaja entry on page 25.

Thanks for showing that Soldbuch here on WAF my friend.

yours friendly

Eric-Jan

[christof]

Here 2 soldbucher

Top : Obermaschinist Karl-Heinz PETERS crew of U-172 and later U-846 KIA
Down : Matrosen Obergefreiter Karl MANDLE crew of U-978

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[christof]

Down signature of KL Gunther Pulst (RK 18 12 1944) commandant of U-978

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[christof]

Up : Fp Nr 47499 for 10. U-Flott.
down : signature of KL Gunther Pulst

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[christof]

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[christof]

Up : Signature of Kapitanleutnant Carl Emmermann (RK 27 11 1942 and EL 4 7 1943) commandant of U-172
Down : crew of U-978 on the Genaral artigas deck. On center Kapitanleutnant Gunther Pulst

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