I doubt it's possible to slam together any more cliches for showing "evil" than are jammed into this image. You have a Nazi U-Boat Captain with an eye patch, a pointed goatee, a thin mustache, a jagged scar, and a vile leer on his mug. He even clutches himself in what seems a fit of vile glee. This screams evil, but then that's the point isn't it.
Charlton offered up some intriguing and even complex war comics in its time, even giving us Vietnam stories while the conflict was raging. But they also made war comics with the clarity of perspective that informed most war comics from most publishers. WWII was the "good war", the one we were clearly the good guys in, and which conversely had plenty of villains. This image ices that down for sure.
There's no signature, but this is likely the work of Bill Montes and Ernie Bache, especially the latter.
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