Fregattenkapitän der Reserve Fritz Breithaupt

[Griffin brigade]

Eichenlaubtrager Fregattenkapitän der Reserve Fritz Breithaupt is buried in the Soldaten Friedhof at Recogne , North of Bastogne in the Ardennes , does anyonwe know the circumstances of his death ?

Regards

Paul

[joerg]

Plane crash, Channel Islands.

[Griffin brigade]

Many thanks Joerg , i wonder how he has ended up being buried in Recogne ?

[bettika]

Hello,
have a look http://www.forum-marinearchiv.de/smf/in ... #msg276734 #4

 Charles Cruickshank: The German occupation of the Channel Islands. The Official History of the Occupation Years (The Trustees of the Imperial War Museum, London 1975), gefunden. Dort heisst es auf S. 254f.:

"Just before Christmas 1944 a Naval Assault Troop cadet (es muss sich um einen Angehörigen des MEK 70 gehandelt haben) and four paratroopers who had been captured at Brest escaped from an American prisoner of war camp at Granville. ... The escaped prisoners of war were treated as heroes. They were sent back to Germany at the beginning of 1945, but their triumpf was short-lived. Their plane was picked up by a night-fighter and shot down near Bastogne. Hüffmeier announced the fact to all units of the navy under his command, for the plane had also carried Kapitän Fritz Breithaupt "whom the enemy never managed to touch in all his time at sea". He ordered that all flags should fly at half-mast on 5 January in honour of these distinguished casualities."

brgd
Beate

[Griffin brigade]

That's wonderful Beate many thanks for the information and link