| Born | 25 May 1913 | Göttingen | |
| Died | 10 Apr 1971 | (57) |
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U-boat Commands
| U-boat | From | To | |
|---|---|---|---|
| U-595 | 6 Nov 1941 | 14 Nov 1942 | 3 patrols (69 days) |
Jürgen Quaet-Faslem entered the navy in the late 1920s, but later served as a Luftwaffe pilot before transferring to the U-boat arm.
After being fatally damaged, Quaet-Faslem's U-595 ran aground on the Algerian coast (Niestlé, 1998). Commander and crew got safely ashore, but were turned over to the Americans, who arrived in a small tank convoy to take them prisoner.
Quaet-Faslem arrived at the interrogation center at Fort Hunt on 1 December, 1942. He was transferred to the POW camp at Crossville, Tennessee, on 21 December, 1942. On 27 January, 1944 he arrived at the Papago Park POW camp in Arizona.
Escape from Papago Park, Arizona
On 12 February, 1944 he was one of five U-boat commanders to escape from Papago Park. Traveling on foot, Quaet-Faslem and three companions managed to penetrate 30 miles into Mexico before they were recaptured. They returned to Papago Park on 1 March.
Quaet-Faslem was one of the 25 POWs who escaped from this camp during the night of 23-24 December, 1944. On 6 January, 1945 he and his companion Friedrich Guggenberger were captured less than 10 miles from the Mexican border.
Quaet-Faslem was transferred to Camp Shanks, New York in February, 1946, then to a compound in the British zone of Germany, near Münster, before being released.
Sources
Busch, R. and Röll, H-J. (1999). German U-boat commanders of World War II.
Niestlé, A. (1998). German U-boat losses during World War II.
Patrol info for Jürgen Quaet-Faslem
| U-boat | Departure | Arrival | ||||||
| 1. | U-595 | 23 Jul 1942 | Kiel | 17 Aug 1942 | Brest | Patrol 1, | 26 days | |
| 2. | U-595 | 9 Sep 1942 | Brest | 6 Oct 1942 | Brest | Patrol 2, | 28 days | |
| 3. | U-595 | 31 Oct 1942 | Brest | 14 Nov 1942 | Sunk | Patrol 3, | 15 days | |
| 3 patrols, 69 days at sea | ||||||||
Ships hit by Jürgen Quaet-Faslem
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About ranks and decorations
Ranks shown in italics are our database inserts based on the rank dates of his crew comrades. The officers of each crew would normally have progressed through the lower ranks at the same rate.