ORIGINAL WW2 GERMAN DEATH CARD/STERBEBILD. MAIN TEXT DETAILS: Josef Schillinger - Machinist - Obergefreiter/Corporal on a U-boat. KIA on 1st Nov 1942. Holder of the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd Class, U-boat War Badge and War Merit Cross. NOTE: photo shows the pre-war'Unterseebootschule' ribbon on Josef's cap.
This was the U-boat training school in Neustadt, Germany Internet Sources: Official date of death; 30th Oct 1942. Fate of of U-520: On her final patrol, sunk on 30th Oct 1942 in the North Atlantic, East of Newfoundland, by depth charges from a Canadian Digby aircraft. 53 dead all hands lost. CARD SIZE: 108mm x 68mm.
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