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Kriegsmarine album
Creator
Unknown
Date1938
Medium1 album containing 222 photographs, 4 loose photographs, 1 map
Dimensions36cm x 25cm (14.17 x 9.84 inches)
Credit LineAnonymous gift, 2020
Object number2021/190
ProvenanceGerman WW2 album of an unknown mariner who served on various ships including the destroyer Hans Lüdemann and torpedo boat T9 in the Baltic and North Atlantic. Photographs document basic naval and flak training, swearing-in ceremony in Stralsund, ships and shipping in port and at sea, mine laying and a torpedo launch. Includes many purchased images of German warships. Ports photographed include Bremen, Bergen, Stavanger and Stettin. 253 Destroyer. Nice photo of dazzle camouflage on ship.
Album concludes with loose photographs of a 1956 reunion and grave (postwar).
LocationNot currently on display
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