No, this is not James Bond 007.  It is HARRY COOPER 1-LIFE-1983, trying very hard to look like Bond…….or maybe Bond was trying to look like COOPER.  Okay, that sounds more realistic.

There are four parts to this expedition so we will have four photos for you to click on to take you to the four parts of the expedition.  We learned a lot – come along with us.

1.  Meeting with S.E.I.G. Agent Feldwebel SCHULTZ about Antarctica – click on the photo of COOPER on your left to see what they discussed;

2.  Meeting with S.E.I.G. Agent NAVEGADOR about Antarctica;

3.  Meeting with IGOR WITKOWSKI, Member #7412 about Antarctica;

4.  Meeting with ANNET BERGEMANN, Member #8020 about Antarctica;

Click on this photo for more information.

    The Third Boat

Even the most novice student of U-Boat history is aware that two U-Boats surrendered well after the German capitulation which was 5 – 8 May 1945.  These were……..

* U-530 under OTTO WERMUTH, Member #1344 that surrendered at the Argentine Navy Base at Mar del Plata in July 1945;

* U-977 under Heinz Schäffer that surrendered the same place on 17 August 1945.

U-530 was a Type IX-C and did have the range to reach Mar del Plata but U-977 was a Type VII-C that did not have the range even if she had departed her homeport with full tanks but according to Schäffer, he departed his homeport with a 75% fuel load, went to his patrol area off England and when the surrender order was given, he returned to his homeport to disembark the married men and then left for Argentina without taking on any additional fuel……an impossible voyage – and there was a LOT more to this voyage.

Thanks to information obtained by FELDWEBEL SCHULTZ, we now know there was a third U-Boat in southern waters after the war ended…….at least one, maybe more.  We are working to identify this third boat.  Could this be the missing boat?  This is an unidentified U-Boat cruising off the coast of Antarctica.

  Hitler and the Secret Alliance

This book tells all about the fabled ‘66 days underwater‘ of U-977 and much more about both U-530 and U-977 that are not known.

This is the companion book to our Best Seller “Hitler in Argentina“.  Get your copy today.

    What Is This?

FELDWEBEL SCHULTZ presented this Google Earth photo of what appears to be a man-made opening into the earth on the Antarctic continent with a metal dome that appears to be in an open position.

He showed us another Google Earth image of this same area but there were what appeared to be artificial computer generated clouds over this area, obscuring this opening and cover as well as the surrounding area.

When we went to the Google Earth coordinates shown here, we got a message that Google could not get us there.  Are they hiding something?

FELDWEBEL SCHULTZ tried to determine if this facility was built by Soviet Russia or America.  His conclusion is that this was Russian built and that at some point in the 1960’s there was a nuclear accident and the workers rushed out for their safety, leaving the dome open as they fled.

He believes that the Russians returned at some point in the 1990’s to retrieve something – who knows what?

On the left is a sketch of the cold water reactor and its position in the area, hand-drawn by Fraülein Marzali, the niece of FELDWEBEL SCHULTZ.

On the right is an outline of the reactor, also drawn by Fraülein Marzali, showing the position of the reactor inside the tunnel complex and showing the area by an important landmark – the pyramid rock.

Photo on the left shows the tunnel in relation to the entrance.

On the right is an old map of Antarctica, clearly showing the German claimed section known as “Neu Schwabenland” (new Swabia) which we have colored yellow so it may be more easily identified.
             
     Directly below is this area, enlarged for your convenience.

Left is a copy of a page from an old German book indicating how the Third Reich marked the boundaries of Neu Schwabenland with these markers, called “spears“.  These were dropped every kilometer from the Dornier ‘WAL‘ (Whale) flying boats.  Fraülein Marzali has drawn in what they looked like close up.

On the right, she has drawn in various important places in Neu Schwabenland.

Below – a Dornier ‘WAL‘ Flying Boat

Not to be confused with the Schermacher Oasis, the Bunger Oasis is fairly large and made up of reddish sand with areas of green, growing trees and plants.

As we see in the sketch to the left, this Oasis was used during the 1990’s by American astronauts training for the anticipated landing on the red planet – Mars.

In the sketch to the left, Fraülein Marzali has indicated the position of a small East German facility.  With the collapse of the Soviet Union, this facility was abandoned in the early 1990’s ad today sits empty – we think.

S.E.I.G. Agent PETER PARKER added that there were plans to build U-Boat facilities (bunkers???) in Feuerland (southern tip of South America) but only one was built.  S.E.I.G. Agent PIZZARRO gave us photos of that facility some years ago and we posted them at that time.  We have taken the precaution of blotting out the lat./long. position of the facility.

According to PETER PARKER the Third Reich also set up small resupply stations on various sub-Antarctic islands during the war.

At one point in the war, the Reich attempted to recruit Argentine soldiers to fight on the Eastern Front.  As we saw in previous issues of our KTB Magazine, it appears they were making just such preparations.  They were NOT German troops, they were Argentine troops in German uniforms working with German equipment.

The JU 390 aircraft, with her six engines, great fuel capacity, huge cargo capacity and great range was sometimes called ‘the Truck‘.  There are a great many stories on the Internet about this plane and a few are correct.  We must remember that the Internet costs nothing and worth exactly what you pay for it.

Did one of these planes actually fly over New York City in the war as we see in this artist painting?

According to some Internet sources, only one was built but according to others – maybe it was two, no maybe three – some even as many as eleven were constructed.

As previously stated, the Internet is rather flawed in that anyone can post anything and sadly, people believe what they see.

In fact, there were three (more or less) of these aircraft produced.  They were designated V1, V2 and V3.  These designations had nothing to do with the “V” weapons; it was just a way to number them.  Our data on the JU 390 aircraft comes to us from S.E.I.G.. Agent PIZZARRO.

JU 390-V3 was never completed and was destroyed at the end of the war;

JU 390-V1 is the plane that allegedly flew to within 20 miles of New York – but in fact, no such flight ever happened.  She was in Berlin when the war ended and taken over by the Allies;

JU 390-V2 is the one that etched her place in history.  The propellers were removed from JU 390-V1 and installed on JU 390-V2.  V2 was three meters longer than V1 which gave her a substantially larger fuel capacity and therefore much longer range.

    German Antarctic Expedition

There is the complete report of this ground-breaking scientific expedition undertaken by Germany in 1938-1939.  The complete report is five volumes, each the size of a big city telephone book.

As we know, the expedition fleet stopped secretly on the island in Trindade after Brazil removed her personnel in 1938.  The German personnel constructed buildings and erected two radio towers of about 80 meters in height.  Photos taken in 1938 by German workers and also photos taken by HARRY COOPER 1-LIFE-1983 when he was on this island with the wonderful assistance from the Navy of Brazil are on our website www.sharkhunters.com then select PREVIOUS TOURS then select SECRET ISLAND BRAZIL.

           …..or just click on this photo

  Operation “High Jump“
.
Who doesn’t know about this SpecOps in which Admiral Byrd was sent to Antarctica allegedly on a cartographic mission – he went to make maps if we are to believe the official story.  But then one must ask why it was necessary in 1947 to come with a battle group including even a submarine?  There is no official explanation for this; not one that most will believe at any rate.

Rumors abound and cover High Jump like a blanket of fresh snow.  Did they find a Third Reich stronghold?  Were there disc-shaped flying objects?  Were there spacecraft that could transit pole to pole in the blink of an eye?  These are just some of the rumors flying around the Internet, which we know is about as reliable as tabloids such as the Weekly World News or the National Enquirer.

This report is four volumes and each one also very thick.

Sharkhunters, with the hard work put in by ANNET BERGEMANN, Member #8020, are trying to put together an expedition to that area to learn the truth or what is…..or is not at the ‘bottom of the world‘.

We will keep you posted on progress in that direction.

    German Antarctic Expedition

There is the complete report of this ground-breaking scientific expedition undertaken by Germany in 1938-1939.  The complete report is five volumes, each the size of a big city telephone book.

As we know, the expedition fleet stopped secretly on the island in Trindade after Brazil removed her personnel in 1938.  The German personnel constructed buildings and erected two radio towers of about 80 meters in height.  Photos taken in 1938 by German workers and also photos taken by HARRY COOPER 1-LIFE-1983 when he was on this island with the wonderful assistance from the Navy of Brazil are on our website www.sharkhunters.com then select PREVIOUS TOURS then select SECRET ISLAND BRAZIL.

           …..or just click on this photo

  Operation “High Jump“
.
Who doesn’t know about this SpecOps in which Admiral Byrd was sent to Antarctica allegedly on a cartographic mission – he went to make maps if we are to believe the official story.  But then one must ask why it was necessary in 1947 to come with a battle group including even a submarine?  There is no official explanation for this; not one that most will believe at any rate.

Rumors abound and cover High Jump like a blanket of fresh snow.  Did they find a Third Reich stronghold?  Were there disc-shaped flying objects?  Were there spacecraft that could transit pole to pole in the blink of an eye?  These are just some of the rumors flying around the Internet, which we know is about as reliable as tabloids such as the Weekly World News or the National Enquirer.

This report is four volumes and each one also very thick.

Sharkhunters, with the hard work put in by ANNET BERGEMANN, Member #8020, are trying to put together an expedition to that area to learn the truth or what is…..or is not at the ‘bottom of the world‘.

We will keep you posted on progress in that direction.

On the way out, we passed an
inbound ship

Then we passed this oil drilling
rig offshore around dusk

We assembled on the aft helo deck (both photos above)

We learned procedures of flight on the Bell Jet
Ranger III (below)

As we neared the island, the deck
crews were making ready

 their landing equipment (above
and below).

We know that the Kriegsmarine kept ships in the harbor at Vigo just south of Villa Garcia during the war, to resupply U-Boats with just about anything they needed to remain on patrol.

Villa Garcia was a small fishing village farther up the estuary and it was from this town that Sharkhunters Member DON ANGEL ALCAZAR de VELASCO (158-+-1987) departed with Martin Bormann bound for Argentina.  We are not sure which boat took them and DON ANGEL claimed that he did not know, but evidence suggests that it may have been U-530 under command of our Member OTTO WERMUTH (1344-+-1990) although he would never comment on this final patrol, during which he surrendered in late July 1945; more than two months after the German surrender.  Was that German sailor who was killed accidentally on Trindade Island from U-530?  We do not know.

Here is where the vast majority of the German ‘Black ops’ took place, in the little cove known as Calleta de los Loros (Parrot Cove) in Golfo San Mathias (St. Mathew’s Gulf).  German spy headquarters for much of South America was in the Lahusen Wool Company in the little town of San Antonio Oeste and agents could make their way to anywhere in South America from here.  The same can be said for people escaping the ruins and retribution of a crumbled Europe.  Click on these photos to learn what is in our two exclusive books on this subject.

The monument looks so much bigger – once we get to it.  We have walked a long way; the red arrow indicates the HQ compound and the blue arrow is our ship.

They are very distant.

This is what they call the ‘Grotto of Lourdes‘ and it is a very long way up the mountain.  The cave goes quite a way into the mountain and there are souvenirs from various ships inside.

The blue line on the chart indicates where we are headed next…..

…..and the trail doesn’t get any easier!

Unfortunately, this is the closest they were able to get to

the tunnel due to exceptionally high tides.  BUMMER!

We are about to head back off the beach for

our return to HQ – and we climb THAT sand hill.

The sand hill got so steep behind that rock outcropping there was a permanently affixed one inch thick hawser attached at the top of the hill and we had to literally drag ourselves up the last 100 meters.  This is a beautiful island – but REALLY RUGGED!

This is the meadow before the next rise…..

….and here is the next climb above COOPER.

The red “X” is the HQ compound far below.

This is an official Third Reich photo of the place taken in
March 1939.  What is left?  Hike along with us and see.

From atop this ridge looking southwest, it is easy to see that anything

up here commanded a view of everything.  Great place for a radio tower.