Rescue of U-701 Survivors July 9, 1942
Photo #1 - Coast Guard PH-2 seaplane lands to rescue U-701 survivors - Navy K-type airship overhead had earlier located survivors and dropped raft and supplies to the survivors |
Photo #2 - K-type airship hovers over liferaft |
Photo #3 - Survivors reach the PH-2 seaplane |
Photo #4 - Mechanikersegefreiter Bruno Faust is lifted aboard |
Photo #5 - Mechanikersegefreiter Bruno Faust is lifted aboard |
Photo #6 - Survivor swims to the PH-2 |
Photo #7 - Commander Richard L. Burke, CO of Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, was awarded his second Distinguished Flying Cross for landing his seaplane in rough conditions to rescue U-701 survivors |
Photo #8 - The survivors are brought ashore at NAS Norfolk, Virginia |
Photo #9 - The survivors are taken by ambulance to the Naval Operating Base (NOB) Norfolk Hospital - Maschinengefreiter Gerhardt Schwendel is in the foreground |
Photo #10 - Escape lung taken from a survivor |
Photo #11 - Obersteuermann Winter Kunert |
Photo #12 - Kapitänleutnant Horst Degen - Commanding Officer of U-701 |
Photo #13 - Maschinengefreiter Gerhardt Schwendel |
Photo #14 - Maschinenmaat Ludwig Vaupel in the hospital at NOB Norfolk |
Photo #15 - Mechanikersegefreiter Bruno Faust |
Photo #16 - Obersteuermann Winter Kunert |
Photo #17 - The POWs were processed during their hospital stay - This is the front of Kapitänleutnant Horst Degen's Basic Personnel Record; his number breaks down as follows: ISN (Individual Serial Number) -5 (indicates he was processed on the 5th Naval District where NOB Norfolk was located) -1 (indicates he is the first POW processed in the 5th Naval District (NA) (indicates he is a Naval POW) |
Photo #18 - The back side of Kapitänleutnant Degen's Basic Personnel Record |
Photo #19 - Mechanikersegefreiter Werner Seldte after his stay in the NOB Norfolk Hospital |
Photo #19 - Funkmaat Herbert Grotheer after his stay in the NOB Norfolk Hospital |
Photo #20 - The seven U-701 survivors pose outside the NOB Norfolk Hospital on July 12, 1942, the day they were transferred to Army custody and to Fort Devens, Massachusetts - From left to right 1) Herbert Grotheer, 2) Gerhardt Schwendel, 3) Ludwig Vaupel, 4) Werner Seldte, 5) Winter Kunert, 6) Bruno Faust and 7) Horst Degen |
Photo #22 - The seven U-701 survivors are transferred to Fort Devens |