Rare original Kriegsmarine cap badge U 652 ww2 in good condition

Cap badge of U 652 of the German Kriegsmarine ww2

Rare U-Boat collector's item in very good condition ww2

Very good general condition. Period repair of the mounting bracket. Tomback with copper fixture.

Dimensions: approx. 3.8 x 1.4 cm

A very beautiful and rare collector's item of the Kriegsmarine

U 652 was commissioned on 3 April 1941 under Oberleutnant zur See Fraatz. On eight patrols five ships with a total of 11450 GRT were sunk.

U 652 was badly damaged on 2 June 1942 by depth bombs of a British swordfish. Commander Fraatz succeeded in summoning the U 81, which was patrolling nearby, by radio. Its commander, Friedrich Guggenberger, took the luckless crew of U 652 on board and allowed Captain-Lieutenant Georg-Werner Fraatz to bombard his submarine with a torpedo from the U 81 tail torpedo tube. Fraatz met the meanwhile heavily stern-loaded submarine amidships, whereupon it broke apart and sank. There were no losses.