| Born | 25 May, 1913 | Göttingen |
| Died | 10 Apr, 1971 |
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Personal information
Jürgen Quaet-Faslem entered the navy in the late 1920s, but later served as a Luftwaffe pilot before transferring to the U-boat arm.
After being fatally damaged, Quaet-Faslem's U-595 ran aground on the Algerian coast. Commander and crew got safely ashore, but were turned over to the Americans, who arrived in a small tank convoy to take them prisoner.
Quaet-Faslem arrived at the interrogation center at Fort Hunt on 1 December, 1942. He was transferred to the POW camp at Crossville, Tennessee, on 21 December, 1942. On 27 January, 1944 he arrived at the Papago Park POW camp in Arizona.
On 12 February, 1944 he was one of five U-boat commanders to escape from Papago Park. Traveling on foot, Quaet-Faslem and three companions managed to penetrate 30 miles into Mexico before they were recaptured. They returned to Papago Park on 1 March.
Quaet-Faslem was one of the 25 POWs who escaped from this camp during the night of 23-24 December, 1944. On 6 January, 1945 he and his companion Friedrich Guggenberger were captured less than 10 miles from the Mexican border.
Quaet-Faslem was transferred to Camp Shanks, New York in February, 1946, then to a compound in the British zone of Germany, near Münster, before being released.
Patrol info
| U-boat | Departure | Arrival | |||||
| 1. | U-595 | 23 Jul, 1942 | Kiel | 17 Aug, 1942 | Brest | Patrol | 26 days |
| 2. | U-595 | 9 Sep, 1942 | Brest | 6 Oct, 1942 | Brest | Patrol | 28 days |
| 3. | U-595 | 31 Oct, 1942 | Brest | 14 Nov, 1942 | Sunk | Patrol | 15 days |
Books dealing with this subject include: The Faustball Tunnel, Moore, John Hammond, 1978 |
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