The photos below were taken during Obermaschinenmaat Theo Hunkirchen's service aboard U-622 and before his assignment to U-450 in December 1944

The series below was taken at the time of U-622's commissioning at the Blohm & Voss yards, Hamburg, Germany - 14 May 1942

Kriegsmarine Ensign is raised as U-622 is placed in commission, CO, Oberleutnant Horst-Thilo Queck, and crew salute

Oberleutnant Horst-Thilo Queck addresses crew in ranks - Theo is in the middle row fourth from left hand side - At right a PK man records the proceedings

Officers and crew pose for photo - Theo under arrow - the boat's UAK symbol, two triangles over two horizontal lines, is clearly seen on the conning tower

Petty officers pose for photo - Theo second from right in second row

Post commissioning party at the shipyard for U-622 - Oberleutnant Horst-Thilo Queck at left in coveralls

The series below was taken when U-622's returned from her third war patrol to Nyhavna in Trondheim, Norway - 18 March 1943

A band, Senior Officer, another U-boat CO and ladies form a reception committee for U-622

U-622 arrives - CO, Oblt. Horst-Thilo Queck salutes from conning tower - the boat's emblem, a shark forming a Q (for Queck) around a torpedo is visible at the front of the conning tower - the emblem of the 11th U-boat Flotilla, a U-boat silhouette from the front with a polar bear behind it is visible on the side of the conning tower - the boat is flying its commissioning pennant from the bridge and two victory pennants from the raised atack periscope

Senior officer welcomes crew - CO is at far left

Senior officer returns salute of CO as he departs

Comrades aboard U-622 - Theo first from left

Comrades aboard U-622 - Theo first from left

Comrades aboard U-622 - Theo third from  the right

Theo ashore in Trondheim

The series below was taken during upkeep and provisioning in Bergen, Norway - November/December 1942

Houses of dockyard workers - From the area of the Kriegsmarine werft near U-boat bunker Bruno

U-622 in drydock at the Kriegsmarine werft near U-boat bunker Bruno

Loading a torpedo at Bakervågen at Askøy (Torpedo arsenal) near Bergan, Norway

The photos below were taken after U-622 was sunk during an air raid near Trondheim, Norway on 24 July 1943 and before he joined U-450 in Toulon, France in December 1943

Relaxing on leave - Theo far right in the first row

Theo second from left

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