German Escort: SUBMARINE'S GOLD CARGO SOUGHT
RESEARCHER LOCATES JAPANESE VESSEL SUNK IN ATLANTIC IN WWII
A rusting Japanese submarine carrying a vast treasure in gold has caused a feud between Tokyo and the Americans who discovered it a half-century after a U.S. torpedo consigned it to the deep. The giant I-52 vessel sank in the Atlantic Ocean in June 1944, at the height of World War II. All 94 crew members -- and more than two tons of gold destined for Japan's wartime ally, Nazi Germany -- went down too.The following day when Allied forces searched the area, west of the Cape...
German Escort: Setting the record straight on the phony Soviet martyrs
The World War II Diary on your Dec. 29 Culture, etc, page states that, in December 1944, in the western outskirts of Budapest, German troops killed two Soviet emissaries approaching German lines with a surrender demand. As a Hungarian veteran and military historian, I must set the record straight. The infamous Gen. Fjodor Tolbuchin and his pillaging Soviet troops were attacking the western edges of Budapest. After days of heavy bombardment of the defenders' fortifications, there was...
German Escort: The Christchurch Press:
Distinguished airman
More than 60 per cent of the pilots and navigators who flew in the strike wings of Coastal Command in World War 2 were killed.Flying Officer Charles Tapper, of Christchurch, dedicated his Distinguished Flying Cross to these men. The Southland farm boy was only 24 when King George VI pinned the award on his breast, at Buckingham Palace, in 1945.Mr Tapper died on January 29, aged 81.As a pilot, first in Hampdens and then in Beaufighters, Mr Tapper flew 42 sorties against German...
German Escort: Berlin
Travel editor Colin Bessonette profiles Berlin, Germany. BERLIN - If any city in the world has a split personality, this is it. In the words of a bearded, chain-smoking, 40ish Berlin man - one of those rare people who actually was born here and has lived here all his life - it is "not just where East Berlin meets West Berlin, or East Germany meets West Germany, it is where two systems meet."Collide might be the better word.A first-time visitor can't...
German Escort: THE GREAT ESCAPE
LAST SURVIVOR RECALLS WAR OF WITS AT GERMAN CAMP
Of all the daring adventures of World War II, few can match the Great Escape of British and U.S. airmen from the infamous German prison camp Stalag Luft III, and no one can tell the story better than Bram Vanderstok.Two hundred prisoners planning to flee the maximum security compound through a narrow tunnel 30 feet underground and 400 feet long dug laboriously with shovels made from tin cans.Only 76 made it out of the tunnel before the guards realized what was happening. Of...