I have been getting really into researching my campaign U-Boot; U-74. Sadly there are no known pictures available online, but I found this incredible auction;
someone in 2016 was selling a set of original photographs of E.F. Kentrat being awarded the Knight's Cross on the
deck of a submarine.
The set of pictures also included this picture, and I wondered who this man was. Of course I noticed the Knight's Cross around his neck, and on Dec. 31, 1941, TWO
people received the Knight's Cross; E.F. Kentrat and Robert Karl Friedrich Gysae, commander of U-98.
Kentrat commanded U-74 at the time and Gysae commanded U-98
U-74 was a VIIb, U-98 was a VIIc. If these pictures depict a VIIb model submarine. These might be the only known pictures of U-74 during WW2.
What is even more interesting; there is a picture of the crew. If this is a VIIb sub, this might be the only known picture of the crew of U-74 under Kentrat's command.
Can someone identify the submarine model based on these pictures?
The crew: