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Kurt Eckel

Oberleutnant zur See (Crew XII/39)



No ships sunk or damaged.


Born  16 May 1921 Vienna

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Kurt Eckel
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Ranks

1 Dec 1939Offiziersanwärter
1 Nov 1940Fähnrich zur See
1 Nov 1941Oberfähnrich zur See
1 May 1942Leutnant zur See
1 Dec 1943Oberleutnant zur See

Decorations

1943Iron Cross 2nd Class

U-boat Commands

U-boatFromTo
U-2325 21 Apr 1945 8 May 1945   No war patrols 

Ships hit by Kurt Eckel

No entries found.


Books dealing with this subject include:

Menschlichkeit im Seekrieg. Schmoeckel, Helmut, 1988.


About ranks and decorations
Ranks shown in italics are our database inserts based on the rank dates of his crew comrades. The officers of each crew would normally have progressed through the lower ranks at the same rate.

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