Review EK2 and U-Boat Badge U-336

[Ralle84]

Hello Gentlemen,

any help on this grouping of Matrosenobergefreiter Kieliszek of U-Boat U-336 is appreciated. Are those citations legit? They look good to me, but you never know.

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Two last pictures of the Wehrpass

[Hank C.]

No specifics on the boat, but the documents look fine to me.

Hank

[Tom B]

IMO very nice original Doc's ! Tom

[Ralle84]

Thank you very much.

Here is her service record for info:

After training with the 5th U-boat Flotilla, she moved to the 1st flotilla for front-line service in December 1942.

The boat carried out four patrols, sinking one ship.

She was a member of ten wolfpacks.

1st patrol

Her second foray also started in Kiel, but terminated in Brest in occupied France after passing between the Faroe and Shetland Islands. She sank the Belgian tanker President Francqui on 29 December 1942 north of the Azores. The ship had already been hit by two torpedoes. U-336 finished her off with a 'coup de grâce'.

2nd patrol

The submarine's third sortie was again into the mid-Atlantic. She spent days scouring the empty wastes, but returned to Brest without success.

3rd patrol

'U-336 's fourth patrol was, at 71 days, her longest. She was attacked by an unidentified aircraft on 10 July 1943 west of Lisbon. Slight damage was the result.

4th patrol

U-336 left Brest for the last time on 14 September 1943. Initially she headed west, out of the Bay of Biscay. On the 24th, she turned north.

Fate

On 5 October, she was sunk by rockets fired by a British Lockheed Hudson of No. 269 Squadron RAF in the Denmark Strait (between Greenland and Iceland).

Fifty men died; there were no survivors.