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Berühmte Schiffe des Zweiten Weltkrieges
Ellis, Chris

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Allied Warships

Check out our new extensive section on all the Allied Warships during WWII in all theatres of the war.

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Hundreds of U-boats displayed emblems in the war, much like many other services from all sides of the war. They varied from typical war emblems (swords, axes, torpedoes etc.) to humorous (Mickey Mouse on U-26) coincidental (the horseshoes on U-99) and many other reasons prompted an emblem. One of the more interesting is the Olympic rings seen on many boats.

Read more about the U-boat emblems.

Random Emblem Horses The first Commander of U-636 was KL Hans Hildebrandt, born in Bremen. Bremen is a city in Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony). This emblem is represents a decoration which can to this day be seen on the roofs of farmhouses in Northern Germany, especially in Lower Saxony. It sits on the top of the gable. The horses were holy to the germanic tribe of the Saxons. The coat of Arms of Lower Saxony is a White Horse on a red field. Germans do not eat horse meat. These decoration probably was intended to deflect evil powers from the house. 1 U-boat displayed this emblem U-636.

Flotilla emblems Most of the 30 U-boat flotillas had emblems. They are all visible on this page. Crew emblems U-boat crews (one batch of officer cadets) often chose their own emblem or insignia. On this page I'll list them all. U-boats with emblems Over 420 U-boats spotted an emblem at one time or another. On this page you can see them all. U-boats without emblems According to our sources the boats on this page did not display an emblem of any kind. Please check this page out and contact us if you find a boat here that did in fact have an emblem since that would be new information. Coat of Arms Many U-boats displayed a Coat of Arms of a city, town or region. You can see them here. Search the Emblem database Possibly the easiest way to find what you are looking for is to search for it. Most popular Emblems on U-boats This page shows the 15 most popular Emblems as seen on U-boats.

About these emblems
I've created over 278 emblems in vector format. This ensures much higher quality of emblems and also opens up the possibility of having much larger versions without loosing quality. All Emblems of the Week pages will use vector-created images and older emblems will be replaced by the newer format.

Additionally there are 119 emblems that have been described but are as of now without actual image. This is done to try to give as complete picture as possible (instead of showing 2 emblems for boat that had 4 we can at least describe these 2 missing).