Arendskerk (Netherlands) Captain: Cornelis Wijker Type: Motor Merchant Tonnage: 7,907 GT Owner: NV Vereenigde Nederlandsche Scheepvaart Mij Homeport: The Hague Built: Danzing (1938) On the morning of January 17, 1940, the Dutch ship “Poelau Bras” arrived in Lisbon, carrying 62 survivors … Read more
. The “Komet”, the german ship that captured the Goese seamen from the “Devon”. (Picture: Wikimedia Commons) In 1943, seventeen Goan seamen part of the British ship “Devon” crew , captured on 19 August 1941 by the German auxiliary cruiser “Komet” … Read more
. . The two crew members of the Catalina are buried in the Sagres cemetery since March 24, 1943. (Picture: Carlos Guerreiro) Date Location Force Aicraft From – to Crew 22-03-1943 Tonel Bay – Sagres RAF 210 … Read more
Soldier in the Blue Division – Infantary Reg. 263 Birth place – Coto, Prado, Melgaço Birth date – 18/07/1917 Death date – Father – José Bento Afonso Mother – Constância da Pureza Esteves Aníbal Afonso was a member of the Blue … Read more
. Victory celebrations in front of the British Embassy in Lisbon (Revista “Mundo Gráfico” magazine/ Hemeroteca Digital) “Viseu has just witnessed a demo-communist demonstration, in which the situation was so serious that the city was and is rightly alarmed”. These … Read more
. News cut about the Blue Division in the Portuguese edition of “Signal” magazine. (“Signal” magazine, Portuguese edition, December 1942) About 150 Portuguese wore the uniform of the Blue Division, a volunteer unit formed in Spain to fight with the … Read more
. The photograph was taken in 1944 or 1945 in Costa da Caparica by Leslie H. Howard, a British citizen who lived in Portugal between the 20s and 70s of last century. In this image we see how the poor … Read more
Soldier in the Blue Division – Wehrmacht Birth place – Birth date – Death date – 01/1956 Father – Mother – João Rodrigues Júnior first fought in the Spanish Civil War, on the side of the nationalists, … Read more
Fafe (Portugal) Captain: Type: Arrastão Trawler Tonnage: Owner: Homeport: Built: Azevedo Gomes (Portugal) Captain: Type: Trawler Tonnage: 296 GT Owner: Soc. de Pescadores Arrábida, Lda. Homeport: Lisbon Built: Bremerhaven, Germany Alfacinha (Portugal) Captain: Type: Trawler Tonnage: 359 GT Owner: Comp. Portuguesa de Pesca … Read more
Date Location Force Aircraft From-To Crew 26-01-1943 Vale de Carro – Albufeira USAAF Ferry Command Lockheed P-38 F Lightning 43-2148 GB → Norte de África 2Lt Richard Louis Rope USA †
