ADDITIONS 2010 / 2024 - A LAST UPDATE
13)ADDITIONS 2022
22 DEC 2022. Added a new picture from the sinking of German Blockade runner Rio Grande sunk: 4/Jan/1944 by USS Cruiser Omaha and Destroyer Jouett on position 06º 40’S 25º 39’W.
20 DEC 2022 - Updated the picture of Dutch merchant Mandalika sunk 19 Mar 1941 by U-105 on pos. 18° 16'N 21° 26'W.
15 DEC 2022 - Added rare pictures from the sinking of German Blockade Runner Anneliese Essberger scuttled 21/11/42 400 miles east off St. Paul Rocks on position 00°54'N - 22°34'W to avoid capture by US Navy cruiser Milwaukee.
01 DEC 2022. - Added the list of prisoners of German blockade runner Carl Fritzen and also a letter from "Falkland Islands Defence Regulation Order for Detention and Control of Enemy Subjects issued by the Island's Governor regarding the transfer of 140 Germans from Carl Fritzen and Ussukuma to Bavianspoort Camp near Simonstown.
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14 AUG 2022 - Added picture from one lifeboat used by the survivors from Brazilian merchant Itapage sunk off the coast of Alagoas state some 100 miles off Recife.
18 JUL 2022 - Added two pictures from Brazilian AFB Cumbica at Sao Paulo which headquartered one squadron with 30 Douglas A-20K twin engine bombers.
15 MAY 2022 - Added a new Article RECIFE AND CONVOY AS4 telling the story of the vital Allied Convoy, the first in importance to mobilize a large fleet of merchants loaded with 300 Sherman tanks and 100 pieces of artillery to the beleaguered British 8th Army in Lybia and Egypt. Shrouded in absolute secrecy it departed New York having made one stop at Recife where one active Axis spy ring operated. The Convoy eventually reached the Suez Canal via South Atlantic Indian and Red Sea unscathed.
25 APR 2022 - Added five pictures at US NAVY BASES IN BRAZIL IGARAPE AÇU the Blimp remote base US Navy erected late in 1942 in Northern Amazon state of Para. The pictures show the remains of the runway, ammunition depot and mooring masts sites still visible.
24 APR 2022 - Adde one more page at BRAZILIAN AIR FORCE FAB, including the Italian trimotor Savoia Marchetti SM 79T which along with other two aircraft made a daring raid Rome- Rio in 1938, the first one to be flown with landplanes in crossing the South Atlantic between Dakar and Natal.
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