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confused you say ? indeed. seems following the Schnellbooten Flt. tenders is quite abit easier though they did support more than one Flottille as well during their careers ; thinking of the Tsingtau and the Tanga in particular as two. Sadly am not sure whether the talley for escort ship Adolf L?deritz was in wear ? thanks again Gordon Erich ~

thank you Gordon for the update, the book sounds huge like Torpedos los. much success additional question and thank you for the response about those two ships/Talleys. the U-Tenders were they individually in place for individual U-Boot Flottille support ? hope this makes sense. In other words 1 Tender per Flottille or ?, depending on the theater of ops ? again thank you Erich ~

Gordon, first of will be watching for your KM Fleet badge book coming out through Bender hopefully at years end. thanks for the clarity was wondering could you add as to which U-Tender talleys of that listing are incorrect ? Erich ~

Gentlemen not to fog up the topic but just as a listing that I have found beneficial for keepsake on the KM Bands is : http://www.kieler-jung.de/katalog/kmarineliste.htm hth Erich ~

Gordon / J. Temple-West many thanks, I see I was not as far off as I thought. Much appreciated for your kindly, concise comments Erich ~

Gentlemen : noticed a few pre-war KM cap Talleys with the Kommandantur prefix for different port locations. question : what does the term Kommandantur mean in this reference ~ garrison of artillery, Flak, mines, or ....... am I way off ? thank you Erich ~

Bob sounds like the PK foto I have of him with Raeder and B?tow placing the Ritterkreuz around his neck. Klaus signed the front and back for me in Silver pencil. Klaus is wearing his earlier Minenabzeichen and Zerst?rerabzeichen badges besdies EK I and his Spainish Cross. Great pic E ~ I'll try and place here and complete the set of fotos and text from him besides put up a M?tzenband of the 2. Schnellbootflottille that I own and it's Begleitschiff.

Bob did you know that Feldt is still alive one of the few RK winners to be still with us. Just received a very nice package from him 2 days ago in fact....... quite a gentleman I also own a copy of the foto you have on the left Erich ~

Paul your latest acquirements were from Weitze possibly ? I am proposing that the latest may have been the gold gilt thread faded but Gordon and John should give their input on this one as I am fairly new to the collecting of the KM bands myself. Mine are all the Gilt wire, several of them faded to the interesting darker copper and green tones. if I understand correctly the gilt wire may have been private purchase and as well pre-war and that the yellow cellon and cotton pieces were war issuant ? E ~

Gents the K?rland cuff title was to be worn by KM personell on which sleeve ? thank you E ~

another fantastic S-Boot grouping Erik ! thanks for sharing these, and to see a 12 Mai 45 date for the Kurland title with Holzapfel signature ....... great ............. Erich ~

Nesredep can you identify this Boot in the last photo and the location ? beautiful shot Erich ~

Gordon : many thanks for your reply, just trying to make a placement of data in my files for some of these "unknown" KM ships/personell Erich ~

not real sure where to put this thread but here goes Concerning the ops carried on by several of the Artilliere Schule boots, the crews would of been entitled to which KM award/abzeichen and Ukrunde ? Zerst?rer or ?? thanks Erich ~

just noting the S-booten pics/camo from the 1st page. seems to be a Flottille based in Finnish waters including their Tender Tsingtau : Schnellboote vor ! bei Hugo Burger image might be a bit small...........

Mike there still is grey original paint under the green on the tube section showing ......... hard to say one way or the other about the shield

Erik a fantastic grouping I must say with actions photos just to add. Are there date inscriptions with the action shots ? Gerhard Woszek born: 09.10.1919, received the DK : 07.01.1944 as Seem.Uffz. E ~

Indeed Gordon and correct, I have another very sharp photo of T?niges one of the best I have seen with a very clear signature in black on a white base bottom, will try and get that photo downloaded soon. a shame really but many of the KM personalities used a blue or black pen over their tunics and the signatures are very hard to discern. case in point is Horst Weber of the 3rd S-Bootflottille, later the 1st Schn.Bt. Division.

thank you David, the original grey finish can be seen and from what I understand this was put into Finnish service after war due to the green paint and the black imprinted SA on the barrel-tube

full shot of Ossi Romm

one from Hans Weik

hopeful this thread is still going a couple of gents I had the pleaseure to sepak with all from the very effective IV.Sturm/JG 3 Fw 190A unit Will Unger

S-boot ace Werner T?niges

a small one of Klaus to go with the nice colured pic above