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Emblem entry for U-1230


The Olympic Rings - Crew 36

The Olympic rings emblem is probably the most unusual and surprising to find on a German U-boat from WWII. Yet there it was, why?

Naval officers joining the Kriegsmarine in 1936, the year of the Berlin Olympics, chose the rings as their emblem.

Keywords: olympic rings

18 U-boats displayed this emblem
U-3, U-20, U-23, U-59, U-227, U-314, U-344, U-394, U-426, U-440, U-467, U-505, U-546, U-555, U-643, U-710, U-869 and U-1230.

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U-boat Emblems