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RARE, KIA early in WW2 photo card, (GREAT PHOTO) full signature WOLFGANG KADEN blue ink, Fine (Rare to find a photo signed by KADEN)
Wolfgang Kaden is credited with the sinking of at least three submarines including the British submarine HMS H49 on 18 October 1940 off of Texel and the Soviet submarine K-23 commanded by Magomet Gadzhiyev on 12 May 1942 off of Nordkyn.
He was killed in action on 9 July 1942 when his submarine chaser U-Jäger 1110 ran into a naval mine and sunk near Hammerfest.
He was posthumously promoted to Korvettenkapitän der Reserve.