Operation Kiebitz was a failed German operation during World War II to organize the escape of four skilled U-boat commanders from a Canadian prisoner...

World War II and renamed Kiebitz Operation Kiebitz, a failed World War II attempt to free German prisoners of war Platzer Kiebitz, a German homebuilt biplane...

and Wolfgang Heyda were the subject of an elaborate escape named Operation Kiebitz. The camp was built as the Bowmanville Boys Training School. Two of...

operations as part of Operation Pointe Maisonnette, the Canadian military's counter-offensive to the German military's Operation Kiebitz. Operation Kiebitz...

Operation Deadlight was the code name for the Royal Navy operation of November 1945 – February 1946 to scuttle German U-boats surrendered to the Allies...

the end of the war. In 1943, the German navy tried to rescue him in Operation Kiebitz but that daring plan (later dramatized in the novel The Bowmanville...

out these operations in Canadian waters into 1944 provided a propaganda effect. One of these operations was the well-known Operation Kiebitz to rescue...

Operation Elster ("Magpie" in English) was a German espionage mission intended to gather intelligence on U.S. military and technology facilities during...

Operation Bolívar was the codename for the German espionage in Latin America during World War II. It was under the operational control of Section D (4)...

All were soon recaptured. 1943 – Bowmanville POW camp, Canada. In Operation Kiebitz, Admiral Karl Dönitz sent the submarine U-536 to pick up four U-boat...

Croatia Operation Karin 1943 - German deployment of naval vessels in the English Channel Operation Kiebitz 1943 - German POW rescue operation via submarine...

Operation Pastorius was a failed German intelligence plan for sabotage inside the United States during World War II. The operation was staged in June 1942...

and recommissioned as HMS Graph. Kretschmer was also the subject of Operation Kiebitz, an attempt to liberate several U-boat commanders from Bowmanville...

rebellion, having assaulted a Canadian guard and taken him prisoner. Operation Kiebitz, a plan to have Otto Kretschmer, Horst Elfe, Hans Ey and Hans Joachim...

early 1943. The correspondence detailed an escape plan, known as Operation Kiebitz, in which the prisoners were to tunnel out of the camp and make their...

1940) Wolfpack 2 (17 – 19 October 1940) List of successful U-boats Operation Kiebitz Merchant ship tonnages are in gross register tons. Military vessels...

de Maisonnette, New Brunswick. The attempted escape was codenamed Operation Kiebitz by the German authorities. Only one prisoner, Wolfgang Heyda, made...

Operation Pelikan (German: Unternehmen Pelikan), also known as Projekt 14, was a German plan for crippling the Panama Canal during World War II. In mid-late...

bombers to help them spot surfaced German U-boats at night. Early night operations with the new air-to-surface-vessel (ASV) radar demonstrated that the radar's...

intercepted and decrypted German radio traffic containing plans of the operation. The Admiralty ordered Admiral John Jellicoe, commander of the Grand Fleet –...

among the warships deployed as part of the Canadian force to break up Operation Kiebitz, the German plan to breakout prisoner of war U-boat captains from...

her as far as the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where she participated in Operation Kiebitz, an unsuccessful attempt to rescue four U-boat commanders from a prisoner...

their cancellation. A repeat of Operation Tungsten, codenamed Operation Planet, was scheduled for 24 April. Operation Brawn, which was to have been carried...

Operation Regenbogen (German: Regenbogen-Befehl, "Rainbow Order") was the code name for the planned mass scuttling of the German U-boat fleet, to avoid...

among the warships deployed as part of the Canadian force to break up Operation Kiebitz, the German plan to breakout prisoner of war U-boat captains from...

among the warships deployed as part of the Canadian force to break up Operation Kiebitz, the German plan to breakout prisoner of war U-boat captains from...

The American Theater was a theater of operations during World War II including all continental American territory, and extending 200 miles (320 km) into...

less scope for pack attacks; Operation Drumbeat against US shipping in early 1942, off the US eastern coast, and Operation Neuland in the Caribbean, were...

Borkum Delphin II Dränger Eisbär Eisteufel Endrass Hai Hartmann Hecht Kiebitz Kreuzotter Leuthen Lohs Pfadfinder Pfeil Prien Raubgraf Rösing Rossbach...

servicing at risk. If the Germans came under Allied attack during a resupply operation, the milk cow would dive first while the attack submarine might fight...