Recently read Ospreys Albatros Aces of World War 1.
In it there is a story about Hasso von Wedel, a pilot that became an ace flying said scout, he then went on to fly BF-109s and got shot down and captured during the Battle of Britain. The book then states that he was repatriated towards the end of the war and got killed defending Berlin!!
Exactly how and why would he be repatriated??
Would he be flown over?? Meeting midchannel?? Through Red Cross?? Sweden??
Also read a story about an english pilot that completed his law studies while in one of the Stalags…and wrote a letter home to his parents in England telling them about it!!!
Amazing if you ask me.
By: robbelc - 15th April 2005 at 21:45
I would guess it would be via ship to Gibralter and the to either Lisbon or Madrid. Lisbon was the main open port during WW2. BOAC operated through there regually with flying boats, and up to around 1944 Lufthansa did with landplanes(FW200?). I think LH maintained a link to Barcelona until a few months before the end of the war. Sweden was a risky flight in a Mossie and would have had no ships travelling that way I would suppose.
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April 15, 2005 at 9:37 pm