Burial at sea honors aboard escort carrier USS Card in the North Atlantic, 6 Jul 1944. The services were for German Navy Kapitänleutnant Hans Steen, captain of U-233 who had been captured but then died of his wounds.

Caption     Burial at sea honors aboard escort carrier USS Card in the North Atlantic, 6 Jul 1944. The services were for German Navy Kapitänleutnant Hans Steen, captain of U-233 who had been captured but then died of his wounds. ww2dbase
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Photos at Same Place Atlantic Ocean
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1. Commenter identity confirmed David Stubblebine says:
28 Oct 2021 04:56:24 PM

Note that Kapitänleutnant Steen’s shroud is covered with the chaplain’s pennant rather than the flag of any nation.

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