Four Photographs Of U-Boot Commander Karl Thurmann; Rk Recipient GTRexclude group to Chaplain in Ordinary

group to Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Victoria and Domestic Chaplain to King Edward VII The Royal Victorian Order

1939 Iron Cross First Class -

maker marked "WHITEHEAD - HOAG

Finely produced in silver gilt

in red case which is worn

Four Photographs Of U-Boot Commander Karl Thurmann; Rk Recipient GTRexclude group to Chaplain in OrdinaryTwo 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,