U=BOAT COMMANDER
AWARD FOR SHIP SINKINGS.
RECIPIENT A PRISONER IN BRITAIN.
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright)
(Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) LONDON, January 16.
The Berlin radio announced that the Fuehrer had awarded one of the highest grades of the Iron Cross to U-boat Commander Kretschmer, for big shipping sinkings, but the announcer did not mention the fact that Commander Kretschmer was a prisoner in Britain.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 January 1942, Page 4
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