Walter Kell
Kapitänleutnant (Crew 33)
| Successes 4 ships sunk for a total of 17,360 GRT 1 warship sunk for a total of 1,060 tons |
| Born | 4 Dec 1913 | Altenwald, Saarland | |
| Died | 19 Oct 1941 | (27) | off Tangier |
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U-boat Commands
| U-boat | From | To | |
| U-8 | 10 Jun 1940 | 6 Jul 1940 | No war patrols |
| U-8 | 13 Sep 1940 | 17 Dec 1940 | No war patrols |
| U-204 | 8 Mar 1941 | 19 Oct 1941 (+) | 3 patrols (97 days) |
Patrol info for Walter Kell
| U-boat | Departure | Arrival | ||||||
| 1. | U-204 | 24 May 1941 | Kiel | 27 Jun 1941 | Brest | Patrol 1, | 35 days | |
| 2. | U-204 | 22 Jul 1941 | Brest | 22 Aug 1941 | Brest | Patrol 2, | 32 days | |
| 3. | U-204 | 20 Sep 1941 | Brest | 19 Oct 1941 | Sunk | Patrol 3, | 30 days | |
| 3 patrols, 97 days at sea | ||||||||
Ships hit by Walter Kell
| Date | U-boat | Name of ship | Tons | Nat. | Convoy | ||
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| 31 May 1941 | U-204 |  | Holmsteinn | 16 |  | is | |
| 10 Jun 1941 | U-204 | | Mercier | 7,886 |  | be | |
| 19 Aug 1941 | U-204 | | HNoMS Bath (I 17) | 1,060 |  | nw | OG-71 |
| 14 Oct 1941 | U-204 | Aingeru Guardakoa | 300 |  | sp | ||
| 19 Oct 1941 | U-204 | Inverlee | 9,158 |  | br | ||
| 18,420 | |||||||
5 ships sunk (18,420 tons). Legend | |||||||
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About ranks and decorations
Ranks shown in italics are our database inserts based on the rank dates of his crew comrades. The officers of each crew would normally have progressed through the lower ranks at the same rate.