A sad & evocative 

World War Two German

Kriegsmarine

Im Memorium Death Card

(Sterbebild)

for  

Matrosen-Gefreiten

Karl-Heinz Koch

crew-man aboard

Unterseeboot U-756

Commanded by

Kapitanleutnant Klaus Harney

and part of the 

6th U-boot Flottilla

based at Wilhelmshaven,

U-756 was a Type VIIC submarine that

was lost just 18 days into its first deployment.

Depth-charged by a Canadian Corvette

HMCS Morden

in the North Atlantic on September 3rd 1942,

all 43 crew members tragically went down with the submarine.

Gefreiter Karl-Heinz Koch

is remembered on the 

Kriegsmarine's

U-boot Ehrenmal 

at Moeltenort in Kiel

A 'double card' death card

 measuring approx 6" x 4.5" and in good condition, 

it features Karl-Heinz in his

'Donald Duck' Tellermutze & Reefer Jacket,

and is a sad but impressive wee document from the 

Second World War German Home Front...

(Photos courtesy of the Tomahawk Films WW-II German Archive)

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