Unknown Badge, Milk Cow Type XIV / Monsun?

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A German gentleman who recently sold it to me said that he himself got it many years ago, along with a cap badge from U 168 (Monsun-boat), from a household. To my knowledge there were only ten Type XIV U-Boats built in total but I could only find the "conning tower" emblems of 9 of them in Georg Hogel's book - the remaining one, U 464, is not incorporated into his book.

U 459, commissioned 15 November 1941, scuttled 24 July 1943
U 460, commissioned 24 December 1941, sunk 4 October 1943
U 461, commissioned 30 January 1942, sunk 30 July 1943
U 462, commissioned 5 March 1942, sunk 30 July 1943
U 463, commissioned 2 April 1942, sunk 15 May 1943
U 464, commissioned 30 April 1942, scuttled 20 August 1942
U 487, commissioned 21 December 1942, sunk 13 July 1943
U 488, commissioned 1 February 1943, sunk 26 April 1944
U 489, commissioned 8 March 1943, sunk 4 August 1943
U 490, commissioned 27 March 1943, sunk 12 June 1944

So I figured maybe it could have belonged to the crew of U 464. Or were perhaps supply surface ships (Versorger) also called Milk Cow or Sea Cow? Your help is much appreciated.

[oldhoweboy]

This is really interesting!
Hope somebody will know
Rgds

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This is taken from the 2005 addendum to Georg Hogel's "U-Boat Emblems...". Happened to come across it today.
The full document can be downloaded at https://www.forum-marinearchiv.de/smf/ ... c=15152.0

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Any other comment that may add to the knowledge to a better understanding of these U-Boat emblems is welcome too, of course!

[oldhoweboy]

Well done! Very interesting
Regds

[oldhoweboy]

How do I download original??
Regds

[oldhoweboy]

No one know??
Re identification, this form report of sinking " Between the time of her leaving the yards and sailing on her patrol, "U 464" carried an identification mark consisting of a red circle".

[oldhoweboy]

From Royal Navy report on sinking
Between the time of her leaving the yards and sailing on her patrol, "U 464" carried an identification mark consisting of a red circle.
Rgds
Nobby

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My badge has a red circumference, but not a circle.

Oldhoweboy, the original can be downloaded at https://www.forum-marinearchiv.de/smf/i ... #msg168771

hope that does work, if not, message me.

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U-751?