HORST HASLAU (167-1986)
Kriegsmarine, U-Bootwaffe
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HORST HASLAU was part of an important last-gasp effort of the Reich to push back the Allies, principally the United States, toward the end of the war. In November 1944 he was radioman on U-1230 under HANS HILBIG (186-1986) during Operation ELSTER (Magpie). They brought the boat into Frenchman’s Bay in Maine in the dark of night and two agents, ERICH GIMPEL (884-1988) who was Abwehr Agent #146 and William Colepaugh, a U. S. Navy Deserter, paddled ashore and landed on this very beach (upper right) to sabotage the Manhattan Project, America’s atomic bomb project.
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HILBIG | GIMPEL | Colepaugh | SCHLICKE |
After the war, HASLAU came to the United States, became a citizen and was an engineer with RCA until his retirement