Erik Krogh

...and Jenigen's final Bronze Star certificate, signed by Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal. Note the promotion to Machinist Mate Second Class since the temporary citation was issued.

Here is Jenigen's preliminary Bronze Star citation, hand-signed by Admiral Lockwood.

My collection includes a scrapbook from Albert Jenigen, who served on all 7 war patrols of USS Crevalle. This boat's patrols are chronicled in Capt. William Ruhe's book "War in the Boats - My WWII Submarine Battles". Crevalle was a member of "Hydeman's Hepcats" during Operation Barney, in which 9 subs entered the Sea of Japan, which was littered with anti-submarine mines and other hazards. Vice Admiral Lockwood awarded a "Mighty Mine Dodgers" certificate to participants of the Operation. Here is Jenigen's.

Here is the entry for James Andrews from the 1938 Naval Academy yearbook "Lucky Bag".

Second part of "A Score for '38"

Andrews graduated from the Annapolis in 1938. 20 years later a "where are they now" book was produced ("A Score for '38"). Here is the section on James Andrews.

BBB inscription.

Reverse of BBB dolphins.

I have been collecting U-Boat items for a number of years but have become interested in the US Navy Silent Service lately. Here are a few items from my USN collection.

First up is my best pair of officer's dolphins. These belonged to James G. Andrews, who was the Executive Officer of USS Aspro and later commanded USS Sabalo. Andrews was awarded the Silver Star.

An encounter between Andrews and Aspro's Commander Harry Stevenson was mentioned in Clay Blair's "Silent Victory" (page 510). Stevenson confided to Andrews that his eyesight was failing but declined to let Andrews take over the periscope.

The dolphins were made by Baily, Banks, and Biddle and are 10k gold. Andrews' wife Shirley E. Wilde engraved the back "S.E.W to J.G.A. Dec. 1942".

U-406. The boat's nickname was "U-Spatz" (sparrow).

U-262. The H?gel book quotes Kommandant Heinz Franke as indicating that the "flying sword" represents a "comradely relationship" between the boat and fighter pilots of the 2nd Jagd-Gruppe Ost, which was being trained at La Rochelle.

U-107.

Here is an enameled U-170 badge. According to the H?gel book, the character represents ski bunnies who were enjoyed by crew members during a ski vacation in Krumh?bel.

Here is a pair of board-made traditions badges for U-802. One is the 2nd U-Flotilla and the other is the boat's arrow-and-rune emblem.

Thank you all for sharing! Michel, as always, has fabulous pieces... I really like these informal badges, but I am always concerned about originality if there is no provenance.

Here are some of my traditions badges. These all came with document groupings and I have the U-Boat man's name attributed to each piece.

First is U-997. This belonged to Vinzenz Koller. As Herr Koller told it and included on page 161 of Georg H?gel's seminal book "U Boat Emblems of World War II 1935-1945": "Our boat's emblem was the "Red Racer" - named after the bicycle, which - lashed fast below the upper deck - accompanied us from our training voyages to Hammerfest."

Richard,

Your Minesweeper exhibits quite nice craftsmanship on the de-nazification.

I have a piece that is also rather unique. Not de-nazified, but de-wreathified. Why someone would be offended by a wreath is beyond me, and a minor tragedy how this once-nice tombak badge has been truncated.

Best Regards,

Erik

OK, Gordon,

I'll "hazard" a guess.

Is it a Beco? Don't know what their U-Boat badge characteristics are, but I believe that they would mark their name in script, not number. Also, the eagle has a rather big beak-o ;-)

It's a shot in the dark...

All The Best,

Erik

Korvettenkapit?n Werner Henke signature.

Korvettenkapit?n Werner Henke, Kommandant of U-515. Signature is on the reverse of the photo.

New York Times account of the capture of U-505. All participants of Task Group 22.3 did an outstanding job of keeping the capture quiet from June 4, 1944 until the story was finally revealed to the public after war's end. This clipping from the NYT is dated May 17, 1945.

U-858 crew:

U-858's kommandant, Thilo Bode, in captivity. Interesting to note that Bode was 1WO on U-505 under Kapit?nleutnant Peter Zschech.

New York Times account of the U-858 surrender

U-858 Surrenders off of Cape May, New Jersey on May 14, 1945. Note the two blimps overhead and the two destroyer escorts, one of which is the USS Pillsbury:

Second fragment of a life raft used by crewman from U-546.