Jurgen Oesten signed photo. Cpt-U-61, U-106

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Signed b&w ~4x6 photo of Jergen Oesten. He was Cpt of U-61, 106, and 861.
From Wikipedia...Born in Grunewald, Berlin, Oesten joined the German Navy in April 1933. After serving aboard the cruisers Admiral Graf Spee and Karlsruhe he transferred to the U-boat arm in May 1937, and was appointed watch officer of U-20. In August 1939 Oesten commissioned U-61, sailing on nine patrols, and sinking five ships. Taking command of U-106 in September 1940, he sailed on three patrols sinking another ten ships.
In October 1941 Oesten became the first commander of the 9. Unterseebootsflottille based in Brest, France. In March 1942 he joined the staff of FdU Nordmeer directing the U-boat war in the Norwegian Sea. In September 1943 Oesten returned to active duty in U-861, sailing to Penang to join the Monsun Gruppe of U-boats operating in the Indian Ocean, and sinking another four ships, bringing his career total to 19 ships sunk, totalling 101,744 GRT, and four ships damaged (51,668 GRT), including the battleship HMS Malaya.
U-861 left Soerabaya, Dutch East Indies, in January 1945 carrying a cargo of vital materials, but only two torpedoes, and reached Trondheim, Norway, in April, just before the German surrender. Oesten was a technical advisor for the 2005 submarine simulator Silent Hunter III.

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