Hello all,
I recently purchased a small kriegsmarine group from a reliable WAF member. It included documents for the U-Boots-Kriegsabzeichen and U-Boots-Frontspange in Bronze, made out to Matrosengefreiten Friedrich Brinkmann who apparently served on the U-870. What is curious about the documents to me is that both are made out "An Bord" and dated "27.Febr.1945". Basically it struck me as very unusual that the two awards would have been made to the same person on the same day. I'm just curious if this is so, and if anyone has any thoughts about it. Both have the stamp reading "Kriegsmarine. 33. Unterseebootsflottille" and are signed by the "Korvettenkapitän und Flottillenchef." The signature is illegible but would have been that of Ernst Hechler. Any thoughts - or any information of Brinkmann or what might have happened to U-870 immediately prior to that to justify the awards would be welcome. I've checked the obvious on-line sources, but don't have much of a reference library (yet). Thanks, Keith
I recently purchased a small kriegsmarine group from a reliable WAF member. It included documents for the U-Boots-Kriegsabzeichen and U-Boots-Frontspange in Bronze, made out to Matrosengefreiten Friedrich Brinkmann who apparently served on the U-870. What is curious about the documents to me is that both are made out "An Bord" and dated "27.Febr.1945". Basically it struck me as very unusual that the two awards would have been made to the same person on the same day. I'm just curious if this is so, and if anyone has any thoughts about it. Both have the stamp reading "Kriegsmarine. 33. Unterseebootsflottille" and are signed by the "Korvettenkapitän und Flottillenchef." The signature is illegible but would have been that of Ernst Hechler. Any thoughts - or any information of Brinkmann or what might have happened to U-870 immediately prior to that to justify the awards would be welcome. I've checked the obvious on-line sources, but don't have much of a reference library (yet). Thanks, Keith
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