Hello,
this thread ic somehow connected with the previous here: http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=560223 in which I wrote that this U-Boot is U-69, which now I think is wrong.
So, let's sit in our school again and study this one a bit.
First page looks like this:
As you can see, in the text it's mentioned Kiel (there were few shipyards there), and the date 19. September 1940.
Now, at first I thought that this particular boat was U-69, as it was launched on that day, but later I compared the photos with the ones in the book The Laughing Cow by Jost Metzler and I found out that it was not that U-Boot.
What makes me believe this is not U-69 is the order of the officers on two photos. here is the one from the book:
and here are two from my set. All three photos have explanations about the differences:
Now, when I convinced myself that this was not U-69, I tried to identify the U-Boot and/or the commander(s), but unfortunately without success:
Here is something I believe is a kind of the emblem:
Here are drain holes which have made me think about this U-Boot as of Typ VIIC or similar ;-):
and here, at least, are the commanders on this commissioning event:
here in the middle I believe is the highest ranking officer:
to the left of him is the one which was ordering something from the tower (I'm not quite sure how the commissioning procedure was organized)
and here is the different set of crew, with almost the same persons:
Here is that officer, with some device tied to the tower fence:
Now I would like to investigate about this U-boot, with the help of more knowledgeable people from this great source of information.
this thread ic somehow connected with the previous here: http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=560223 in which I wrote that this U-Boot is U-69, which now I think is wrong.
So, let's sit in our school again and study this one a bit.
First page looks like this:
As you can see, in the text it's mentioned Kiel (there were few shipyards there), and the date 19. September 1940.
Now, at first I thought that this particular boat was U-69, as it was launched on that day, but later I compared the photos with the ones in the book The Laughing Cow by Jost Metzler and I found out that it was not that U-Boot.
What makes me believe this is not U-69 is the order of the officers on two photos. here is the one from the book:
and here are two from my set. All three photos have explanations about the differences:
Now, when I convinced myself that this was not U-69, I tried to identify the U-Boot and/or the commander(s), but unfortunately without success:
Here is something I believe is a kind of the emblem:
Here are drain holes which have made me think about this U-Boot as of Typ VIIC or similar ;-):
and here, at least, are the commanders on this commissioning event:
here in the middle I believe is the highest ranking officer:
to the left of him is the one which was ordering something from the tower (I'm not quite sure how the commissioning procedure was organized)
and here is the different set of crew, with almost the same persons:
Here is that officer, with some device tied to the tower fence:
Now I would like to investigate about this U-boot, with the help of more knowledgeable people from this great source of information.
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