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MOGUERA · Post by **MOGUERA** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 9:54 am

Did any SS or Waffen SS troops fight in the Pacific?

von_noobie · Post by **von_noobie** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 3:36 am

mate not a single german soilder thought in the pacific they thought in north africa , europe , and asia .

i dont know why you would ask this

Osterhase · Post by **Osterhase** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 12:53 pm

Kind of an odd/silly question isn't it? Still, you may find it interesting that some former SS joined the French Foreign Legion after WWII and fought in Indochina/Vietnam in the early 1950's.

von_noobie · Post by **von_noobie** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 11:04 pm

i would have to say some since alot of them were shot on site by russians and americans alike when captured .
you know , since all of the masacres they did .

Nibelung · Post by **Nibelung** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 11:17 am

Nonsense!

best,
Nibelung

Scott Revell · Post by **Scott Revell** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 5:08 pm

i would have to say some since alot of them were shot on site by russians and americans alike when captured . you know , since all of the masacres they did .

Unbelievable - what has this got to do with the original question. Secondly, the original question was quite odd but the response by you von_noobie is unbelievable........

Ron Klages · Post by **Ron Klages** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 7:51 pm

von_noobie,

Maybe no soldiers in the Pacific but there were sailors.

PACIFIC OCEAN
U862 under the commkand of Heinrich Timm
1. 9 December 1944 sunk a ship the Ilissos 4724 tons
2. sunk the Robert J. Walker 7180 tons

INDIAN OCEAN
Many subs operated

Then there were the raiders, frighters with hidden guns.

In the Pacific were:
KMS Komet from 3 July 1940 to 30 November 1941 11 ships sunk in the Pacific
KMS ATLANTIS both Indian and Pacific Oceans 15 ships sunk in Indian Ocean and 1 ship sunk in Pacific Ocean
KMS Orion sunk 10 ships in the Pacific

Also the Graf Spee fought in the Pacific.

The Germans were fighting in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

best regards,

Ron Klages

von_noobie · Post by **von_noobie** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 11:15 pm

yes there were german u-boats in the pacific i know that but i verey much delt the fact that the ss fighted in the pacific , and the ss did kill many many many russian and american troops , in the battle of the bulge something like 29 unarmed american troops were shotup by ss troops , and it is impossible to tell of the amount of massacres they did in russia

Shawn · Post by **Shawn** » Thu Jul 21, 2005 7:54 pm

Of interest, these two German officers served as military attachés for their respective branches of service in Tokyo during the war.

Best regards,
Shawn

Generalmajor Wolfgang von Gronau (Luftwaffe)
• 15 April 1939-21 January 1945: Luftwaffe Attaché at the German Embassy in Tokyo, Japan.
• 27 January 1945-8 May 1945: Luftwaffe High Command Leader Reserve. [Although officially replaced by General der Flieger Ulrich Kessler as the Luftwaffe Attaché in Tokyo, Generalmajor von Gronau remained in Japan awaiting transportation home. However, Kessler never made it to Japan as his transport, the submarine U 234 commanded by Kapitänleutnant Johann-Heinrich Fehler, was en route when Germany surrendered. On 15 May 1945, the U 234 surrendered to the destroyer escort USS Sutton (DE-771) and a prize crew took her into Portsmouth, New Hampshire.]
• 8 May 1945-16 August 1945: Interned in Japan.
• 16 August 1945-30 November 1947: Prisoner of war in U.S. captivity.

Admiral Paul Wenneker (Kriegsmarine)
• 28 December 1933-23 August 1937: Naval Attaché at the German Embassy in Tokyo, Japan.

• 21 March 1940-8 May 1945: Naval Attaché at the German Embassy in Tokyo, Japan and German Admiral East Asia.
• 1945-5 November 1947: Prisoner of war.

Feldgrau.net

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