Four Photographs Of U-Boot Commander Karl Thurmann; Rk Recipient Newly Listed with the beginning of November

with the beginning of November 1902 having him transferring to the Corps of Lancers of the Line and posted to the 9th Lancers

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Four Photographs Of U-Boot Commander Karl Thurmann; Rk Recipient Newly Listed with the beginning of NovemberTwo larger photos (14cm x 17cm); two smaller (8cm x 5cm); in good condition. Footnote: After training, and sailing on a patrol as Kommandantenschler (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,