Kriegsmarine
Documents and Paperwork
Price 1200€
Award Document for the U-Boat Badge
to a Knight's Cross winner.
Original award document for the U-Boat badge dated 7 Jan 1943
and with Dönitz facsimile signature to Matrosengefreiten
Siegmund Matheja. Matheja later transferred to the Army and served as an
Unteroffizier with Pz. Haub. Abt./ Führergrenadier Division part of Panzerkorps
Grossdeutschland and was awarded the Ritterkreuz on 6 May 1945.
Matheja may be seen in postwar uniform wearing both the U-Boat Badge and
Ritterkreuz.
Document has the usual punch holes for a document folder , has been folded
and has tape reinforcement to the reverse of two corners. Nevertheless an
extremely rare document for the U-Boat Badge to an Army Ritterkreuzträger !!
Matheja
served on U-445. For information on this boat click here 
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Wartime postcard with original signature of U-Boat Ace Gunther Prien.
Commander of U-47 and holder of the Knights Cross with Oakleaves
Price 750€
Under Prien's command U-47 sank over 30 allied ships totalling around 200,000 GRT. His most famous
success was of course the sinking of the battleship Royal Oak at the Fleet anchorage in Scapa Flow
and subsequent successful escape. An extremely rare period signature. Both card and signature in excellent
condition.
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Award Documents for the U-Boat Badge and Iron Cross for U-593
A pair of documents comprising the U-Boat Badge award document and an Iron Cross Second
Class award document to Maschinenobergefreiter Josef Schumacher of U-593
Both have the desirable Dönitz signatures
U-593 was a famous boat, with 9 merchant ships sunk in addition to 4 warships. Very few
boats successfully sank enemy warships. U-593 was commander by Knight's Cross
winner Kapitänleutnant Gerd Kelbling.
For
further info on U-593, click on this link
Price 750€
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Wartime photograph showing crewman wearing the 2nd Type E-Boat badge
together with Minesweeper Badge and Black Wound Badge
SOLD
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Wartime photograph showing crewman wearing the 1st Type E-Boat badge
together with Minesweeper Badge, Iron Cross 1st Class and Iron Cross
2nd Class Ribbon.
SOLD
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Wartime photograph showing U-Boat crewman wearing the U-Boat Badge
together with the U-Boat Front Clasp in what appears to be silver grade.
SOLD
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Award Documents for the U-Boat Badge and Bronze U-Boat Clasp form U-170
A pair of documents comprising the U-Boat Badge award document issued June 1944
with facsimile Rösing signature and scarce document for the U-Boat Clasp in Bronze
signed by Korvettenkapitän Kuhnke, commander of 33 U-Flotille.
A photo of the recipient, Mechanikersgefreiten Heinz Justenhoven is included.
U-170 was a Type IXC/40 boat
For
further info on U-170, click on this link
Price 975€
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ascinating letter to the relative of a U-Boat sailor who had been asking about his
family member. Written by Knight's Cross winner Ernst Kals in his capacity
as commander of 2 Unterseebootsflotille, it re-assures the recipient of the letter
of the sailor's wellbeing, that he is currently at sea and that it is not known
exactly when the boat will return to base but that he shouldn't worry.
The letter is headed "freudige Mitteilung" (Happy News)
Price 148€
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Award Document set for U-195
A superb document set to a crew member of U-195, a Type IXD1 which served in the far east.
As well as refuelling the famous Monsun boats, U-195 carried supplies for the base in Penang
and carried V2 rocket components being traded to the Japanese. At the end of the war, she was
taken over by the Japanese and renamed the I-506. She eventually fell into British hands after
the Japanese surrender and was scuttled in August 1945.
The set of documents, to Stabsobermaschinist Fritz Hafer comprises
Long Service Medal 4th Class
Sudeten Medal
Minesweeper Badge
U-Boat Badge
Iron Cross 2nd Class
U-Boat Clasp in Bronze
U-Boat Clasp in SIlver
Price 5300€
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A very nice shot of Korvettenkapitän Erich Franz Klünder, commander of 5. Minensuch-Flottille,
wearing the Knight's Cross which has clearly just been bestowed. He already holds the
German Cross in Gold and what appears to be a Spanish Cross in Silver without Swords.
Price €190
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