Hundreds of U-boats displayed emblems in the war, much like many other services from all sides of the war. They varied from typical war emblems (swords, axes, torpedoes etc.) to humorous (Mickey Mouse on U-26) coincidental (the horseshoes on U-99) and many other reasons prompted an emblem. One of the more interesting is the Olympic rings seen on many boats.

Read more about the U-boat emblems.

About these emblems
I've created over 317 emblems in vector format. This ensures much higher quality of emblems and also opens up the possibility of having much larger versions without losing quality. All Emblems of the Week pages will use vector-created images and older emblems will be replaced by the newer format.

Additionally there are 600 emblems that have been described but are as of now without actual image. This is done to try to give as complete picture as possible (instead of showing 2 emblems for boat that had 4 we can at least describe these 2 missing).
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