Four Photographs of U-Boot Commander Karl Thurmann; RK Recipient

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Four Photographs of U-Boot Commander Karl Thurmann; RK Recipient

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Four Photographs of U-Boot Commander Karl Thurmann; RK Recipient

Two larger photos (14cm x 17cm); two smaller (8cm x 5cm); in good condition. Footnote: After training, and sailing on a patrol as Kommandantenschüler (Commander-in-Training") aboard U-29 under Otto Schuhart, Thurmann commissioned the Type VIIC U-boat U-553 on 23 December 1940. Thurmann took U-553 out on nine patrols in 1941 and 1942, and sank 12 merchant ships totaling one warship, and damaged two more. On 16 January 1943, Thurmann left La Pallice, France, on his tenth patrol. On 20 January, he sent the radio message: Seerohr unklar ("Periscope not clear"). U-553 was never heard from again and her fate remains a mystery.