Gordon Williamson Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 Here are some award docs to well known commanders.Jurgen Oesten Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Williamson Posted June 24, 2007 Author Share Posted June 24, 2007 Horst von Schroeter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Williamson Posted June 24, 2007 Author Share Posted June 24, 2007 Helmut Rosenbaum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Williamson Posted June 24, 2007 Author Share Posted June 24, 2007 Georg Schewe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Williamson Posted June 24, 2007 Author Share Posted June 24, 2007 Jochen Brans.Note that all of the above early documents have the correct foliage border, and correct ink stamp - "Befehlshaber der Unterseeboote-Operationsabteilung" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Williamson Posted June 24, 2007 Author Share Posted June 24, 2007 Bronze and Silver Frontspange for von Schroeter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Williamson Posted June 24, 2007 Author Share Posted June 24, 2007 Frontspange for Rolf Thomsen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan Arne S Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 (edited) WOW ! Jan Arne Edited June 24, 2007 by Jan Arne S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardT Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 Great set of documents Gordon. The more original documents we get to view, the more educated we become and value of that is inestimable.Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Krogh Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 (edited) Gordon,Thanks for posting your amazing docs! Just wonderful to see.Here is an early U-Boat document awarded posthumously to Kplt. Wilhelm Fr?hlich of U-36. Fr?hlich died when U-36 went down on December 16, 1939, one of the first U-Boats sunk in the war.Fr?hlich is immortalized in Georg H?gel's "U-Boat Emblems of World War II 1939-1945" on pages 42-43 as informing the Captain of S/S Turo (Capt. J. E. Egner) "Good day Captain, I am sorry but war is war and I am going to sink your ship. Why did you run away from me?" After requiring Egner to sign a paper promising that Egner "would not go on board a British Man O' War or merchant vessel until after the war" and sending an SOS with the lifeboats' position, Fr?hlich asked Egner if there was anything else he needed. Egner replied that he needed water, to which Fr?hlich replied "No, the water on my ship is bad, but I will give you beer." Egner received "24 bottles of beer and a bucket for baling out the boat." Best Regards,Erik Edited June 27, 2007 by Erik Krogh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Krogh Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 I have Fr?hlich's photo album and am pretty sure that this is a picture of him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Krogh Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 I have Fr?hlich's photo album and am pretty sure that this is a picture of him.Here's a page from Fr?hlich's photo album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Williamson Posted June 29, 2007 Author Share Posted June 29, 2007 Quite fabulous Erik ! Sad that such a gallant officer was lost so early in the war.I will be over at the U-Boot Archiv later in the year and will try to find some more images of him for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Krogh Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 Thank you for your very generous offer to obtain more information on Kplt. Fr?hlich, Gordon! Much appreciated, and I'll look forward to your research.Best,Erik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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