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unusual facts about Kretschmer


Convoy HX 72

Kretschmer, in U-99 made contact around midnight of 20/21 September and attacked, hitting Invershannon.


Mary Luckhurst

Luckhurst’s plays include The Woman of Shallott (Cambridge 1990), translations of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s Emilia Galotti (London, 1993) and Elisabeth Bouchaud's A Contre-Voix (London, 1994), and Kretschmer's Diary (Prague, 1999).

The McKenzie Break

Kretschmer was also the subject of Operation Kiebitz, an attempt to liberate several U-boat commanders by submarine, from Bowmanville POW camp in Ontario, Canada, which was foiled by the Royal Canadian Navy.


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