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Re: UC 50 & Escape from Boyardville POW camp
Posted by:
chrisheal
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Date: January 07, 2017 11:31AM
No problem at all, Michael, just grateful, as always, that you give of your time and expertise.
Thank you for the detailed information which, sadly, leaves me in a quandary. I am waiting for some more papers from Freiburg on this subject, so I think I'll get on with the book and give Boyardville a short time to rest and assimilate.
My basic problem remains. The French papers from Cherbourg strongly suggest that Suadicani (now found to be Bartenbach's chief of staff), did send two u-boats to the French Atlantic coast in January 1918 in connection with Commander Gerth's planned escape: one to get him and another to check landing sites for further escape attempts (which were planned). As you say, this might have been reduced to just one u-boat. In his escape attempt, Gerth was joined by a u-boat officer Schwertfeger (or similar), of which named there are three in the Ehrenrangliste, none of whom was a prisoner of war.
Best wishes
Chris
Thank you for the detailed information which, sadly, leaves me in a quandary. I am waiting for some more papers from Freiburg on this subject, so I think I'll get on with the book and give Boyardville a short time to rest and assimilate.
My basic problem remains. The French papers from Cherbourg strongly suggest that Suadicani (now found to be Bartenbach's chief of staff), did send two u-boats to the French Atlantic coast in January 1918 in connection with Commander Gerth's planned escape: one to get him and another to check landing sites for further escape attempts (which were planned). As you say, this might have been reduced to just one u-boat. In his escape attempt, Gerth was joined by a u-boat officer Schwertfeger (or similar), of which named there are three in the Ehrenrangliste, none of whom was a prisoner of war.
Best wishes
Chris
Subject | Written By | Posted |
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UC 50 & Escape from Boyardville POW camp | chrisheal | 11/08/2016 06:16PM |
Re: UC 50 & Escape from Boyardville POW camp | Michael Lowrey | 11/08/2016 07:36PM |
Re: UC 50 & Escape from Boyardville POW camp | chrisheal | 11/17/2016 10:51AM |
Re: UC 50 & Escape from Boyardville POW camp | Michael Lowrey | 11/17/2016 02:45PM |
Re: UC 50 & Escape from Boyardville POW camp | chrisheal | 11/17/2016 04:19PM |
Re: UC 50 & Escape from Boyardville POW camp | chrisheal | 12/10/2016 09:31AM |
Re: UC 50 & Escape from Boyardville POW camp | Michael Lowrey | 01/02/2017 08:32PM |
Re: UC 50 & Escape from Boyardville POW camp | chrisheal | 01/07/2017 11:31AM |
Re: UC 50 & Escape from Boyardville POW camp | chrisheal | 01/31/2018 07:50PM |
Re: UC 50 & Escape from Boyardville POW camp | Michael Lowrey | 11/08/2016 08:36PM |
Re: UC 50 & Escape from Boyardville POW camp | chrisheal | 11/09/2016 10:36AM |
Re: UC 50 & Escape from Boyardville POW camp | osprey8000 | 09/28/2022 10:35AM |