U-Boats at War: Landings on Hostile Shores

by SHOWELL JAK P. MALLMANN

• ISBN13: 9781557508645
• ISBN10: 155750864X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Naval Inst Pr

Summary

The story of the little-known U-boat espionage landings in neutral countries during World War II.

Table of Contents

Photographic Acknowledgements	4	(3)
Introduction: U-boat Landings on Hostile Shores	7	(7)
Irish Fiascos	14	(10)
Icelandic Betrayals and Failures	24	(4)
Sabotage in the United States	28	(4)
Investigating American Atom Bombs and Jet Aircraft	32	(2)
Intrusions into Canadian Waters	34	(17)
Landing Leutnant Langbein from U213	34	(3)
Landing Werner von Janowski from U518	37	(1)
Daylight Raid in Conception Bay	38	(1)
Picking up Escaped Prisoners of War	39	(4)
The German Base in Canada	43	(8)
Along the Fringes of the Sahara	51	(19)
Landing Jean Lallart from U66	51	(9)
Mediterranean Landings	60	(1)
Munitions Transporter for Rommel's Army	61	(9)
Neutral Spain	70	(14)
The Spanish Supply System	70	(5)
Repaired in Spain	75	(2)
Interned in Spain	77	(7)
The Mysterious Canary Islands	84	(12)
Was there a Secret Refuelling Base?	84	(9)
U-boats on the Canary Islands	93	(3)
The Barren Arctic	96	(17)
U212 Landing on Bear Island	96	(6)
U703 Rescues Russians from Hopen Island	102	(2)
Arctic Reconnaissance	104	(9)
Arctic Meteorological Stations	113	(6)
U365 Sails to Spitzbergen	113	(2)
U354 on Hopen Island	115	(4)
U722 Supplies the Garrison at St Nazaire	119	(4)
The Final Defiance	123	(13)
Appendix 1. U-boats which Landed on or Approached Close to Foreign Shores	136	(19)
Appendix 2. Further Reading	155	(2)
Index	157