Infomation on U-234 from old sources
Joseph M. Scalia. Germany's Last Mission to Japan: The Failed
Voyage of U-234. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2000. xxiv + 296
pp. Photographs, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95
(cloth), ISBN 1-55750-811-9.
en.m.wikipedia.org
U-234 was carrying twelve passengers, including a German general, four German naval officers, civilian engineers and scientists and two Japanese naval officers. The German personnel included General
Ulrich Kessler of the
Luftwaffe, who was to take over
Luftwaffe liaison duties in
Tokyo;
Kay Nieschling, a Naval Fleet Judge Advocate who was to rid the German diplomatic corps in Japan of the remnants of the
Richard Sorge spy ring;
Heinz Schlicke, a specialist in radar, infra-red, and countermeasures and director of the Naval Test Fields in Kiel (later recruited by the USA in
Operation Paperclip); and August Bringewalde, who was in charge of Me 262 production at Messerschmitt.
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The Japanese passengers were Lieutenant Commander Hideo Tomonaga of the
Imperial Japanese Navy, a naval architect and submarine designer who had come to Germany in 1943 on the
Japanese submarine I-29, and Lieutenant Commander Shoji Genzo, an aircraft specialist and former naval attaché.
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