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RE: Found Rare U-boat POW signed handkerchief
Posted by:
Jim
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Date: August 19, 2001 07:04PM
<HTML>Hello MPC,
I found a crew listing on the web for U-459 and as luck would have it there where no listings as to the names that I have. That leads me to believe that the u-boat was sunk earlier and this could be the date they signed it. Don\'t know and maybe never will. A thought just occured to me as I am typing this that just by chance the guard that received this might not have been on the rescue ship but could have been a guard at a POW prison camp where these men where located and that is where he got this, so any sinking before 24 July 1943 could fit...these might be men from different u-boats for all I know. Also the intials \"W.R.I.C.\" is in block stencil military form and this could be from a POW camp. Don\'t know...thanks for your responce and I will keep digging.
Jim</HTML>
I found a crew listing on the web for U-459 and as luck would have it there where no listings as to the names that I have. That leads me to believe that the u-boat was sunk earlier and this could be the date they signed it. Don\'t know and maybe never will. A thought just occured to me as I am typing this that just by chance the guard that received this might not have been on the rescue ship but could have been a guard at a POW prison camp where these men where located and that is where he got this, so any sinking before 24 July 1943 could fit...these might be men from different u-boats for all I know. Also the intials \"W.R.I.C.\" is in block stencil military form and this could be from a POW camp. Don\'t know...thanks for your responce and I will keep digging.
Jim</HTML>
Subject | Written By | Posted |
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Found Rare U-boat POW signed handkerchief | Jim | 08/19/2001 03:05AM |
RE: Found Rare U-boat POW signed handkerchief | MPC | 08/19/2001 08:02AM |
RE: Found Rare U-boat POW signed handkerchief | Jim | 08/19/2001 05:41PM |
RE: Found Rare U-boat POW signed handkerchief | MPC | 08/19/2001 06:56PM |
RE: Found Rare U-boat POW signed handkerchief | Jim | 08/19/2001 05:44PM |
RE: Found Rare U-boat POW signed handkerchief | Jim | 08/19/2001 07:04PM |
RE: Found Rare U-boat POW signed handkerchief | Jim | 08/19/2001 08:19PM |
RE: Found Rare U-boat POW signed handkerchief | MPC | 08/20/2001 09:38AM |
RE: Found Rare U-boat POW signed handkerchief | Michael Lowrey | 08/20/2001 05:11PM |
RE: Found Rare U-boat POW signed handkerchief | Jim | 08/20/2001 06:11PM |
RE: Found Rare U-boat POW signed handkerchief | Werner Frank | 08/19/2001 01:34PM |
RE: Found Rare U-boat POW signed handkerchief | Werner Frank | 08/19/2001 01:36PM |