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

[Torvald Von Mansee]

..in SH3:



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:



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

[Chad]

Wow, that is a real find.

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

[TLAM Strike]

Here is the image correctly rotated...

[TLAM Strike]

Here is his Wikipedia entry. Very interesting stuff

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

[Chad]

And here is the uboat.net entry:

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

[frau kaleun]

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.

[Torvald Von Mansee]

Originally Posted by Chad

Wow, that is a real find.

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

Well, it's along a "Rock Ave" () 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.

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Torvald Von Mansee

It seems there are a lot of infants.

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

WTF has the No Such Agency been doing?

[Thomen]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

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.

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

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

[Camaero]

Wow that's crazy...

[Jimbuna]

A most interesting discovery

[Reece]

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.

[Jimbuna]

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.

[CCIP]

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.

[Torvald Von Mansee]

Originally Posted by CCIP

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.