Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: styer@ms.uky.edu (Eugene Styer) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: U-700 information wanted Message-ID: <1990Nov20.022149.27681@cbnews.att.com> Date: 20 Nov 90 02:21:49 GMT References: <1990Nov17.020851.685@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: Univ. of Kentucky Lines: 34 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Eugene Styer In article <1990Nov17.020851.685@cbnews.att.com> mark@motown.altair.fr writes: >From: mark@motown.altair.fr > >>From: r_anderson@clyppr.enet.dec.com (Rick Anderson) > >>The story I read is so bizarre as to be unbelievable. The British >>Navy Officer in charge of the investigation of the submarine was >>none other than Ian Fleming (of "James Bond" fame). It gets even >>stranger when the U-700 First Officer escapes from his British POW >>camp, sneaks on board the U-700 (in the middle of Britain's main >>submarine base in the midst of WWII!) and manages to take control > >Right. I think ol' Ian made the whole thing up. Or is it just a >coincidence that "U-700" is "007 you" spelled backwards? This looks like a highly modified version of the U-570, which surrendered to British forces off Iceland early in the war after damage from an aircraft attack. They were talked into sailing back to Iceland and scuttled the sub near Iceland. The sub was raised by the British and used for various operations One German did escape from the prison camp they were being held at, but was found (I forget if he was dead or alive, probably dead) not too far from the camp. Reference: Gallery's story of the capture of the U-505 (interesting story also) -------- Eugene Styer styer@ms.uky.edu matstyer@eku.bitnet -- Eugene Styer - 402 Wallace, EKU, Richmond, KY 40475 styer@eku.bitnet "A complex number consists of two parts, a real part and an imaginary part, where the imaginary part is as real as the real part if you can imagine that."