So, very early this morning, I was playing this scenario..
 

..in SH3:

http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/4...reenshotsu.jpg

Sooo...fast forward, I'm at Ft. Meade about 11 am. I'm taking a walk around the southern edge of the base (a mix of brand new and run-down construction) and I find the "Post Cemetery." I walk around, and I see this:

http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/9596/whenke.jpg

Tilt your head...I HAD made it upright, but when I uploaded it for some bizarre reason it was on its side.

Wow, that is a real find.

Whereabouts is this Ft. Meade and is it open to the public? What other graves are there?

Here is the image correctly rotated...
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/9596/whenke.jpg

Here is his Wikipedia entry. Very interesting stuff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Henke

And here is the uboat.net entry:

http://uboat.net/men/henke.htm

There's a book about him that's supposed to be pretty good. On my Wish List like so many others but IIRC it's kinda pricey.

Well, it's along a "Rock Ave" (:rock:) which runs parallel to Rt 32 before Rock Ave turns and crosses 32. It's next to another cemetery called Bethel Cemetery.

Here's the cemetery's entry on findagrave:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg...st%20Cemetery&

It seems there are a lot of infants.

Ft. Meade is accessible if you have a military I.D. (or know someone who will take you in w/his/her I.D...expect your car to be searched if you don't have a DOD parking sticker), and I think the cemetery gate is open like 8-4 or something like that.

So your telling us that Ft. Meade has a bunch of babies buried behind it? :o

WTF has the No Such Agency been doing? :06:

$10 used.. :D
IF it is the same book, tho

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...condition=used

Wow that's crazy...

A most interesting discovery http://www.psionguild.org/forums/ima...s/thumbsup.gif

The IXC U-515 was sunk, according to my book on 9.4.44 SE of the Azores serving at the time with the 10th Flotilla, Lorient, had 6 patrols sinking 24 ships for 144,864 tons.
44 including the commander survived, he was shot on the 15th June 44 whilst trying to escape at Fort Hunt Virginia.

My reference: U-Boat Fact File by Peter Sharpe page 108:

9.4.44 depth charged to the surface and attacked by aircraft of VC-58 Sqn (USS Guadalcanal) and captured by the USN Destroyers Pope, Chatelain, Flaherty and Pilsbury and lost with 15 hands. The 43 survivors were taken prisoner.

Wow, quite the discovery. Must have been rather eerie.

Henke's story is pretty sad. War is war, but he really was set up and treated unfairly - can't blame him for thinking he had no choice to save his honour there, except to get himself shot.

Make no mistake: I would gladly have been part of an Allied DD crew during WW2, and ruthlessly taken part in the War of the Atlantic against the u-boats. However, once he was a POW, the way Henke was treated was way out of bounds. I thought it was Name, Rank, and Serial Number. That was all you were obligated to say once taken prisoner.