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The lost graves of Peenemünde

Title: The lost graves of Peenemünde / Mike McLeod and Sean Feast ; foreword by George Dunn.
Author: McLeod, Mike
Publication: [Hitchin, Herts] : Fighting High Ltd., 2020.

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Additional Authors

Feast, Sean

Description

x, 115 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), map; 24 cm

Summary

The raid on the secret rocket research establishment at Peenemünde on the Baltic coast in August 1943 has gone down in history as one of the most successful and remarkable of the war. The site was virtually obliterated, and the Germans forced to move rocket production and development elsewhere. But it came at a terrible cost. More than 40 bombers and 215 RAF aircrew failed to return. After the war, the bodies of many of those who were killed were recovered by the Missing Research and Enquiry Service (MRES) and buried in Commonwealth war graves. But not all. A series of mishaps and miscommunication led the MRES to search in the wrong place. Funds to continue the search dried up. And with the site falling into Russian hands, and access to British and US search parties severely restricted, the search ultimately had to be called off, and the remaining men commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial as having no known grave. But some of the missing men are still there, waiting to be found. With a foreword from Peenemünde raid veteran pilot George Dunn DFC L d'H, and illustrated with a wealth of previously unpublished photographs, Sean Feast and Mike McLeod tell the story of the forgotten graves of Peenemünde, the search to discover the truth about their final resting place, and the chance that their bodies may yet be discovered and returned.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Note

Place of publication from publisher's website.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 21-5688

ISBN

1999812891
9781999812898

OCLC

1139641161

Author

McLeod, Mike, author.

Title

The lost graves of Peenemünde / Mike McLeod and Sean Feast ; foreword by George Dunn.

Publisher

[Hitchin, Herts] : Fighting High Ltd., 2020.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1939-1945

Added Author

Feast, Sean, author.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-5688

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