• Wolfgang Heyda (14 November 1913 – 21 August 1947) was a German U-boat commander during World War II. Heyda entered the Navy in 1932, serving aboard the...
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    National Historic Site of Canada. In 1943, prisoners Otto Kretschmer and Wolfgang Heyda were the subject of an elaborate escape named Operation Kiebitz. The...
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    Kriegsmarine officers, Wolfgang Heyda, captain of U-434, managed to escape over the camp walls using a crude zip-wire on electrical cables. Heyda eluded search...
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    Florida from 1951 till 1969, in Atlantic City, New Jersey (d. 2007) Wolfgang Heyda, German naval officer, U-boat commander during World War II, in Arys...
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  • on 15 March 1941, and commissioned on 21 June 1941, Kapitänleutnant Wolfgang Heyda commanding. U-434 sailed from Kristiansand, Norway on 2 November 1941...
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  • revealing its exit to the guards. Instead, another U-boat commander, Wolfgang Heyda, escaped over a barbed wire fence and made his way 1,400 kilometres...
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    to have several senior naval officers (including Otto Kretschmer and Wolfgang Heyda) attempt to escape from the Camp 30 prisoner of war camp at Bowmanville...
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    origin was Bathurst, such as lumber. On 27 September 1943, German spy Wolfgang Heyda, who had been interned in Bowmanville, Ontario, evaded capture in Montreal...
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    in the lower leagues. Kurt Sanderling (1912-2011), German conductor Wolfgang Heyda (1913-1947), German U-boat commander Mariusz Patyra (born 1977) Polish...
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  • 0 0 1 2,215 0 0 Sunk 16 November 1941 HMS Marigold U-434 1941 VIIC Wolfgang Heyda 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sunk 18 December 1941 HMS Blankney and HMS Stanley...
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