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A Kriegsmarine Flotilla Weddigen U-Boot 9 Photo Album

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A Kriegsmarine Flotilla Weddigen U-Boot 9 Photo Album

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A Kriegsmarine Flotilla Weddigen U-Boot 9 Photo Album

A one-of-a-kind photo album of the 1st U-Boat Flotilla U-9 German submarine; titled “Erinnerungen an meine Wehrdienstzeit” (Memories of my Military Service), this photo album encompasses 193 photographs and portrays the military service onboard the U-9. This album has a total of 40 pages, with a navy cover embossed with a golden Kriegsmarine eagle and “Flottille Weddingen U. 9”, as well as publisher markings “Buchbinderei Nesse & Becker - Leipzig” on the rear cover; 26.7 cm x 19cm; overall very fine condition, with all pages present and free of stains or rips. Footnote: The 1st U-Boot Flotilla (1. Unterseebootflottille), also knowns as the Weddigen Flotilla was the first operational U-Boot unit of the Kriegsmarine, founded on September 27, 1935 under the command of Karl Dönitz. U-9 was a coastal submarine, launched on July 30, 1935 and commissioned on August 21 of the same year with Hans-Günther Looff in command. During its 19 patrols under a series of commanders, the U-9 sank a total of 8 enemy ships for a Gross Register Tonnage (GRT) of 16,669. At 10:30 on August 20, 1944, at Constanta in Romania in position 44°12′N 28°41′E, U-9 was sunk by bombs from a Soviet aircraft. The soviets raised her a year later and commissioned her into the Soviet Navy as TS-16 until she was broken up on December 12, 1946.