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  • Ernst Kals
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  • Ernst Kals (2 August 1905 – 2 November 1979) was a Kapitän zur See with the Kriegsmarine during World War II. He commanded the Type IXC U-boat on five patrols, and sank twenty ships, for a total of 145,656 tons of Allied shipping, becoming the sixteenth highest scoring U-Boat ace of World War II. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.
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serviceyears
  • 1924
Birth Date
  • 1905-08-02
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death place
  • Emden
Name
  • Ernst Kals
Caption
  • Ernst Kals
Birth Place
Title
  • Commander of 2nd U-boat Flotilla
Awards
death date
  • 1979-11-02
Rank
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  • 200
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Before
  • Korvettenkapitän Viktor Schütze
Years
  • January, 1943 – October, 1944
After
  • disbanded
abstract
  • Ernst Kals (2 August 1905 – 2 November 1979) was a Kapitän zur See with the Kriegsmarine during World War II. He commanded the Type IXC U-boat on five patrols, and sank twenty ships, for a total of 145,656 tons of Allied shipping, becoming the sixteenth highest scoring U-Boat ace of World War II. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.
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