U-boat Emblems


The Emblems

The Olympic Rings - Crew 36


The Olympic rings emblem is probably the most unusual and surprising to find on a German U-boat from WWII. Yet there it was, why?

Naval officers joining the Kriegsmarine in 1936, the year of the Berlin Olympics, chose the rings as their emblem.

Keywords: olympic rings

19 U-boats displayed this emblem
U-3, U-20, U-23, U-59, U-227, U-314, U-344, U-394, U-426, U-440, U-467, U-505, U-534, U-546, U-555, U-643, U-710, U-869 and U-1230.

Click on the boat's number to see if there were other emblems.

U-boat Emblems