PRELIMINARY REPORT
NOTE:
     
          Four officers and 40 ratings from a German U-boat arrived at Newport News, Virginia aboard USATNY (Brazil) at 1700 on November 30, 1942, and were interrogated the following day. The interrogation was cursory and routine as 17 days had elapsed since capture of the prisoners, and as they were to be moved at once to the U.S. Detailed Interrogation Center for intensive questioning. Almost no information of intelligence value was obtained in preliminary interrogation, but a captured diary yielded some evidence. All information contained in this report must be accepted with reserve pending further confirmation.  
     
 
NUMBER: U-595 (?)
   
CAPTAIN: Kapitänleutnant Jürgen QUAET-FASLEM
   
TYPE: 500 tons, VII C, Blohm & Voss.
   
FLOTILLA: 29th, based at SPEZIA (Italy).
   
DEVICE: Blue Fish (on each side of C/T).
 
     
  HISTORY:  
     
          From entries in the captured diary it is believed that the U-boat was commissioned early in November, 1941, and proceeded to the Eastern Baltic for trials. She appears to have been frozen in at Danzig for several months and to have completed her trials in the spring of 1942, returning to Blohm & Voss for overhaul in June. The boat probably left on its first war cruise on July 23, 1942, being assigned 9 days later to the 9th Flotilla, (possibly based on Brest) and said to be commanded by Kapitänleutnant Lehmann-Willenbrock. The boat seems to have returned from its first cruise on August 17, and to have left on its second  
 
 
     
     

 

     

   
cruise on September 9, returning to the same port on October 12. On November 9, 1942, the boat was assigned to the 29th U-boat Flotilla, based on Spezia, and left on its third and last war cruise.
SINKING:
     
          According to a statement made by Kapitänleutnant QUAET-FASLEM aboard USAT BRAZIL, his boat was attacked by an airplane and bombed at 0945 on November 14, 1942 off Cape Khamis, (French Algeria) 70 miles N.E. of Oran. The hydrophones were damaged and water entered the boat so that it was not possible to submerge. Further bombing and machine-gunning took place and the captain ordered the crew to abandon ship. The U-boat was run into shoal water and a radioman left behind to scuttle ship. This man was subsequently picked up by a British destroyer which had joined the action. The radioman opened the vents and set off scuttling charges in the boat. The crew swam ashore and surrendered to a French officer under the misapprehension that they would be safe in French hands. They were taken to a garrison at Picard where they were fed and quartered. At midnight an American tank company effected their capture. The prisoners were brought to Oran on November 15, and were placed aboard USAT BRAZIL for transport to America on November 16.  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
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NAME
RANK/RATING
STAMMROLL NUMBER
SERIAL NUMBER
       
QUAET-FASLEM, Jürgen Kapitänleutnant   5G8NA
v. MIRBACH, Emmerich, Frh. Oberleutnant (Ing.)   5G9NA
KAISER, Frederich Leutnant z. See   5G10NA
v. HORSTIG, Horst Eberhard Leutnant z. See   5G11NA
       
PRZYGODE, Herman Obermaschinist 0616/33T 5G12NA
MÄDEL, Wilhelm Maschinenmaat UP 1731/37 T 5G13NA
SCHIERS, Hermann Torp. Mechanikermaat UO 5437/39 S 5G14NA
RATZKO, Jacob Bootsmaat UN 886/40 S 5G15NA
KARCHER, Anton Matrosengefreiter UO 4314/41 S 5G16NA
KÖHLER, August Maschinengefreiter UN 10470/41 T 5G17NA
HALM, Heinz Werner Maschinengefreiter UN 10424/41 T 5G18NA
SÄUBERLICH, Henry Richard       Bernhard Matrosengefreiter UN 14002/40 S 5G19NA
JOSS, Friedrich Funkmaat UO 737/38 T 5G20NA
PETERS, Theo Herman Funkmaat UN 579/40 T 5G21NA
HEIDLINDEMANN, Erich Hermann Maschinenmaat UN 2625/39 T 5G22NA
BOHG, Willy Walter Bootsmaat UN 3787/38 S 5G23NA
HORN, Gerd Matrosengefreiter UO 926/41 S 5G24NA
v. CHARMIER-GLISCHINSKI,       Heinz Hermann Hans Wilhelm Maschinengefreiter O 4565/41 T 5G25NA
NÖLKER, Walter Ewald Maschinengefreiter UN 11662/41 T 5G26NA
BUNGE, Franz Richard Martin Funkobergefreiter UO 9683/40 T 5G27NA
OHRT, Claus Maschinengefreiter UN 10826/41 T 5G28NA
RAST, Werner Maschinengefreiter UN 10842/41 T 5G29NA
LORENZ, Gerhard Fritz Maschinengefreiter UO 5418/41 T 5G30NA
BRIESEMEISTER, Herbert Gunther Matrosengefreiter UN 1393/41 S 5G31NA
ZIMMERMANN, Siegfried Georg Obermaschinist    O 693/34 T 5G32NA
SCHWARTZ, Georg Max-Josef Obersteurmann UN 584/35 S 5G33NA
DURST, Fritz Ernst Heinrich Obermaschinenmaat UN 2226/37 T 5G34NA
HEDER, Herbert Paul Maschinenmaat UN 2928/38 T 5G35NA
OEHME, Seigfried Kurt Obermaschinenmaat UO 174/38 T 5G36NA
BRILL, Erich Johannes Bootsmaat UO 2581/37 S 5G37NA
DRESSEL, Heinz Kurt Bernhard Maschinenmaat UO 3809/39 T 5G38NA
SCHMIEDER, Helmut Max Matrosengefreiter UN 16059/40 S 5G39NA
GLUDING, Felix Matrosengefreiter UO 4302/41 S 5G40NA
JESPERS, Karl Matrosengefreiter UO 4312/41 S 5G41NA
GARTHE, Walter Ernst Heinrich Matrosengefreiter UO 4298/41 S 5G42NA
TIETJEN, Karl Matrosengefreiter UN 27118/41 S 5G43NA
JUNG, Gerhard Matrosengefreiter UO 4313/41 S 5G44NA
BRANS, Bernhard Fredrich Heinrich Maschinengefreiter UN 10658/41 T 5G45NA
DEGELMANN, Max Johann Maschinengefreiter UN 10375/41 T 5G46NA
LEYKAUF, Andreas Maschinengefreiter UN 10785/41 T 5G47NA
ABELING, Karl Freidrich Mechanikergefreiter UO 6218/41 S 5G48NA
DRESSLER, Paul Gustav Mechanikergefreiter UN 19606/41 S 5G49NA
VOGT, Hans Josef Maschinengefreiter UN 19959/41 T 5G50NA
WAGNER, Fritz (Freidrich Wilhelm) Matrose UN 22319/41 T 5G51NA