Showing posts with label U-boat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label U-boat. Show all posts
Friday, May 18, 2018
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
It's such a lovely winter we're having this spring
Rain and heavy winds once again turned our project area into a quagmire. Raining now and till midnight when it starts snowing.
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Friday, April 13, 2018
Bisecting and Dissecting Features
In Archaeology features can tell us a lot, or in this case tell us this was probably a tree that was hit by lighting and burned to cinders. We can note this by the bisected shape and that is was a straight down excavation.
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Saturday, April 7, 2018
Teaching Day
A local high school's Archaeology Club came to our site today to learn about the real thing. They dug, troweled, and screened their way to being tired and sore.
Thursday, April 5, 2018
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Measuring and Mapping
On a very cold day we were measuring and mapping features in 10 x 10 meter blocks. Features as previously noted are stains in the soil. From them we can learn about ancient civilizations.
We found a nice bifacial piece. Bifacial meaning having two sides. In Archaeology a bifacial is important as it is a piece that has been worked. We find a lot of flakes. Which are small pieces knocked off a core piece in the process of making a tool or weapon. A bifacial piece means it was intended to be something and was being worked (created).
We found a nice bifacial piece. Bifacial meaning having two sides. In Archaeology a bifacial is important as it is a piece that has been worked. We find a lot of flakes. Which are small pieces knocked off a core piece in the process of making a tool or weapon. A bifacial piece means it was intended to be something and was being worked (created).
Rained Out
Pouring rain left our Phase 3 project a soupy mess. Walking on it caused more of a mess then it fixed. Today's not looking good either....
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Bisecting a Feature
With the sun out it turned out to be a nice day. We found some small but nice pieces of pre-historic pottery as well as quite a bit of historic pieces (nails, pottery).
Monday, April 2, 2018
Below Freezing Archaeology
It's all of 24 degrees and of course windy as hell. I'll be piling on clothes to the point of being the kid in a Christmas Story - "I can't put my arms down"!!
Saturday, March 31, 2018
On a Phase 3 project in Napoleon, Ohio.
Phase 3's are the big pits and real archaeology. In the pic I'm scraping down a feature. Which is a stain in the earth. Stained soil tell us ancient civilizations lived there and their normal activities (cooking, storing food, etc...) left stains still visible. Love climbing up and down mountains, but this is the good stuff!!
New Team Member
Race to Find a Nazi Miracle Weapon is proud to announce Aladar Nesser is now a member of our team.
Ali brings 40 years of global engagement to the team as a consultant in the field of International and Government Relations and Crisis management. From 2007 to 2015 he served as a Director of International Business Development and Government Relations for Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. Previous to joining Odyssey Mr. Nesser served for 28 years as a US Naval Officer in various assignments encompassing international Naval air operation, anti-terrorism operations, and planning and command positions with NATO.
Story Highlights
On 31 March, 1945, with little more than a month before Germany surrendered unconditionally unterseeboot (U-boat) U-873 embarked on its first and only voyage. While officially the U-boat was listed as being on a war patrol oddities and inconsistencies would point otherwise.
The most telling sign that U-873 was on more than an end of the war patrol came on 15 May, 1945. When the Chief of Naval Operations sent secret dispatch “151716”, stating the commander of U-873, was of “primal importance” as only he “could furnish the answers to certain questions”.
Information derived from captured spies lead the US government to believe an attack from U-boat towed “robot bombs” was imminent. To combat same, an umbrella of protection covering both New York and Washington deploying two hunter-killer groups consisting of four jeep aircraft carriers, and forty-two specially trained escort warships - waited.
The answers the Navy so desperately sought from the commander of U-873 were never obtained. As in the early morning of 19 May, 1946, after an all-day “session” with a “Special Interrogator” the Kapitänleutnant (captain) was found bleeding and dying in his cell.
After years of detective work we believe we have uncovered the answers the Navy so desperately sought.
The most telling sign that U-873 was on more than an end of the war patrol came on 15 May, 1945. When the Chief of Naval Operations sent secret dispatch “151716”, stating the commander of U-873, was of “primal importance” as only he “could furnish the answers to certain questions”.
Information derived from captured spies lead the US government to believe an attack from U-boat towed “robot bombs” was imminent. To combat same, an umbrella of protection covering both New York and Washington deploying two hunter-killer groups consisting of four jeep aircraft carriers, and forty-two specially trained escort warships - waited.
The answers the Navy so desperately sought from the commander of U-873 were never obtained. As in the early morning of 19 May, 1946, after an all-day “session” with a “Special Interrogator” the Kapitänleutnant (captain) was found bleeding and dying in his cell.
After years of detective work we believe we have uncovered the answers the Navy so desperately sought.
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