Here is a piece we have owned for a few years and has sat on a torso form in my office all that time. Something else a bit cooler ( at least in my mind came in) so this came down and photos were taken.
This is Hermann Hoffmann's Kriegsmarine tropical shirt that he was wearing with the U-172 was captured / sunk off the Canary Islands.Hoffmann took over as the commander of the U-172 when he was 22 years old and only made one patrol when his sub was surrounded and captured by the USS Bogue, USS George E Badger, USS Clemson, USS Osmond Ingram and the USS Du-Pont. This group chased the U-172 for 27 hours and dropped about 200 depth charges until she was finally sunk.
Written on this shirt is FORMERLY PROPERTY OF OBERLEUTNANT ZURSEE HERMANN HOFFMANN C.O. U-BOAT SUNK BY BOGUE GROUP DEC - 13, 1943. It is then signed by all the commanders of each ship.
I have always felt this was an amazing piece of Naval history.
This is Hermann Hoffmann's Kriegsmarine tropical shirt that he was wearing with the U-172 was captured / sunk off the Canary Islands.Hoffmann took over as the commander of the U-172 when he was 22 years old and only made one patrol when his sub was surrounded and captured by the USS Bogue, USS George E Badger, USS Clemson, USS Osmond Ingram and the USS Du-Pont. This group chased the U-172 for 27 hours and dropped about 200 depth charges until she was finally sunk.
Written on this shirt is FORMERLY PROPERTY OF OBERLEUTNANT ZURSEE HERMANN HOFFMANN C.O. U-BOAT SUNK BY BOGUE GROUP DEC - 13, 1943. It is then signed by all the commanders of each ship.
I have always felt this was an amazing piece of Naval history.
What a super piece you have in your collection
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