To be more exact there were 240 tons of German documents and war
materials aboard U-234. The war material included 560 kg of Uranium
Oxide, jet & rocket components for missiles and aircraft, the latest
proximity fuses and AP shells, a complete pressurized pilot's chamber,
and various other stocks of strategic materials along with components
to various guidance systems.

To my knowledge the Germans never developed a true proximity
fise as they lacked the cavity magnetron and miniaturized electronics
necessary.IRC correctly the best they could manage was the "Kranich"
acoustic proximity fuze.

Try all these:

Bad: Acoustic, Graf Zeppelin Institute
Elku/Paplitz: Electro-Acoustic, ELAK, Kiel
Fuchs: Radio, AEG, Berlin
Isegrimm: Electrmagnetic, Ernst Orlich Institute, Danzig
Kakadu: Radio, Donaulandische GmbH, Vienna (3000 produced for Hs 293)
Kranich: Acoustic, Ruhrstahl AG, Brackwede
Kugelblitz: Radio, Patebt Verwertungs Gesellschaft, Salzburg
Kuhglocke: Electrostatic, Rheinmetall-Borsig
Lotte: IR
Marabu: Radio, Siemens-Halske
Marder: Radio, Ernst Orlich Institute, Danzig
Meise: Acoustic, Neumann & Borm, Berlin
Pinscher: Radio, Ernst Orlich Institute, Danzig
Pistole: Photo-Electric
Roulette: IR, Brinckmann, Gera
Stimmgabel: Acoustic, Graf Zeppelin Institute
Trichter: Radio, Blaupunkt
Wassermaus: Photo-Electric
Wiesel: Radio, Ernst Orlich Institute, Danzig
Zunder-19: Aerial bomb prox. fuse for burst height of 25-30 ft above
ground, Rheinmetall-Borsig

At least some of these were on U-234...

The boat also carried several Messerschmitt engineers with documents

For several read two, August Bringewalde, Willi Messerschmitt's "right-hand
man"
who was in charge of ME 262 production, and Franz Ruf, an industrial
machinery
specialist who designed machines and appliances to manufacture aircraft
components.

What about Dr. Schauerns and Dr. von Chiligensberg also?

on the latest jet aircraft... but no complete aircraft, just
components in storage containers.


correct

Keith

Rob