FLY THE DONEGAL CORRIDOR TO THE ARCHANGEL INSTITUTE

(this page published on May 31, 2007)

 

What is the Donegal Corridor? 

 First it is a chapter in Irish history that was written during WWII.

Second it now is a chapter in the history of Fort Wayne’s former abortion clinic at 827 Webster Street, written over the past thrity years. 

APPLYING THE HISTORIC PARALLELS TO 827 WEBSTER STREET

The holding company that has purchased the building at 827 Webster Street was formed in March as the Donegal Corridor, LLC, a result of research in February-March of 2007. This moniker then made it into the press in Fort Wayne, thanks to an interested News-Sentinel reporter.  

A COROLLARY TO THE DONEGAL CORRIDOR AT 827 WEBSTER

Just as Ireland’s Donegal Corridor was a path through formerly hostile high places serving to advance the Allied cause, Webster Street’s Donegal Corridor is a device by which a formerly hostile “high place” can be redeemed to advance the Culture of Life.

In the original Donegal Corridor the Germanic foe was most recognizable in the form of Adolph Hitler and the silhouette of the Nazi battleship the Bismarck, which sank the HMS Hood. In the Donegal Corridor on Webster Street the foe is best recognized in human form as George Ulrich Klopfer, a first generation German immigrant (born in Germany immediately after or during WWII) who has described his line of work as “removing population pollution” and in Susan Hill, a feminist dreadnaught who sank the head of Allen County’s Nurses Concerned for Life, the much loved Phyllis Avila, in 1983, and NorthEast Indiana Rescue in 1991.

(In both cases the legal platform she fired off of turned out to be, at the end of all of the litigation, lacking in merit — albeit not in firepower.)

In the original Donegal Corridor, the vehicles delivered through the Corridor were flying boats.
In the Donegal Corridor on Webster Street the vehicle being delivered is the ArchAngel Institute.

SO PLEASE AID AND ABET THE INSTITUTE.  THE WAR EFFORT NEEDS YOU!!!

For more information on Klopfer and his German ancestry, click here

For more information on Hill and her use of litigation as a weapon, click here 

For more information on Avila as a modern martyr, click here 

For much more information on the vision of the ArchAngel Institute, click here

 

MORE DETAILS ON THE DONEGAL CORRIDOR ANALYSIS FOLLOW ….

We begin with the original, Irish Donegal Corridor . . .

Donegal Corridor refers to a mountain pass opened by a secret treaty with the “neutral” Free Irish Republic during World War II that allowed allied planes to refuel in Ireland while hunting German submarines. News-Sentinel, May 8, 2007 (reporting on the Webster Street happenings)

 According to www.enniskillencastle.co.uk, the Donegal Corridor played a role in one of the most significant naval triumphs of World War II:

Despite Eire’s [Ireland's] claimed neutrality, its government often provided indirect support for the Allied Forces. The best example of this is the permission given to allow Allied planes to use the “Donegal Corridor”. As a result of this agreement, American Catalinas were loaned to the RAF and joined their fleet of Lerwick and Short Sunderland flying-boats. What was kept secret was the fact that the Catalinas lent by the Americans came with US personnel who trained RAF pilots in their use and who even flew operations for the Allies.

The Sinking of the Bismarck

 The benefit of these covert agreements was fully realised in May 1941. On 24 May 1941 the German battleship, The Bismarck sank a symbol of British Naval power The Hood, killing 1415 men. The coastal command at Castle Archdale joined to search for The Bismarck. On 25 May 1941, Catalina Z of the 209 Squadron set course through the Donegal Corridor towards the Atlantic. The co-pilot was an American, Leonard ‘Tuck’ Smith, and flying with him was RAF Pilot Officer Briggs. What followed was one of the most important episodes of the War. Smith and Briggs sighted The Bismarck on 26 May 1941 enabling Allied forces to track the battleship and sink it the following day. The surveillance capabilities of the Allied forces[flying through the Corridor] effectively ended the German dominance at sea.

 

SO GOES THE EXCITING HISTORY OF THE FIRST DONEGAL CORRIDOR.

FORT WAYNE, INDIANA NOW HOSTS A COROLLARY TO THE DONEGAL CORRIDOR AT 827 WEBSTER STREET

Just as Ireland’s Donegal Corridor was a path through formerly hostile high places serving to advance the Allied cause, Webster Street’s Donegal Corridor is a device by which a formerly hostile “high place” can be redeemed to advance the Culture of Life.

In the original Irish Donegal Corridor the Germanic foe was most recognizable in the form of Adolph Hitler and the silhouette of the Bismarck, which sank the HMS Hood.

In the Donegal Corridor on Webster Street the foe is best recognized in human form as George Ulrich Klopfer, a first generation German immigrant who has described his line of work as “removing population pollution” and in Susan Hill, a feminist dreadnaught who sank Fort Wayne’s belloved Phyllis Avila and the populist uprising against abortion that called itself NorthEast Indiana Rescue (NEIR).

Search this website for “Klopfer” “Hill” or “Avila” to learn much more about the colorful history of 827 Webster Street.  (Or use the hyperlinks at bottom of this page).

In the original Irish Donegal Corridor, the vehicles delivered through the Corridor were flying boats.

In the Donegal Corridor on Webster Street the vehicle being delivered is the ArchAngel Institute.

We can hallow this rich history while making history.

AAI’s Vision: A rebirth of Christian chivalry advancing the Culture of Life.

AAI’s Purpose: To advance the Culture of Life through commemoration, communication and litigation.

JOIN US!!!

 

BONUS MATERIAL FOR A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF THE HISTORY AND PARALLELS FOLLOWS . . .

 

 

Friends, the Anniversary of D-Day, one of the most important, bloody and fierce battles in the history of WWII. Let us pause to honor the brave soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice at D-Day. They are numbered in the tens of thousands.

One site reports the following:
“Today, twenty-seven war cemeteries hold the remains of over 110,000 dead from both sides: 77,866 German, 9386 American, 17,769 British, 5002 Canadian and 650 Poles.
Between 15,000 and 20,000 French civilians were killed, mainly as a result of Allied bombing. Thousands more fled their homes to escape the fighting.”

Consider the voids left in our social fabric due to these untimely deaths. Most of these Allied young men would have, had they not fallen in battle, come home to England, Canada and the USA to have children. Those children would have been born in the 40’s and 50’s, who would have then had children born in the 60’s and 70’s, the grandchildren of the fallen, who would now have children – the nonexistant great grandchildren of the ghosts of the fallen D-Day soldiers.

War is sometimes necessary. It is always tragic.

For Whom The Bell Tolls
John Donne

No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manner of thine own
Or of thine friend’s were.
Each man’s death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.

WWII History Bonus Round:

A few of you have been following my research on the Donegal Corridor (through Ireland’s northeastern County). I stumbled upon this little known historical fact (that such a passage even existed and that it aided the Allied Cause) in March 2007, and pressed it into service for ArchAngel Institute’s purposes at that time.

It appears that the Donegal Corridor is also receiving some focus across the pond … this from an Irish Newspaper one month before our May 19, 2007 Dedication service at 827 Webster Street …

Plaques mark secret wartime air corridor in Donegal
By Anita Guidera Thursday April 19 2007

Yesterday, granite memorial plaques were erected in Ballyshannon, Co Donegal, and across the border four miles away in Belleek, Co Fermanagh, to publicly acknowledge for the first time the passage of flying boats along the ‘Donegal Corridor’ to the Atlantic from their bases on Lough Erne.

In 1940, when flying boat bases were first established in Lough Erne, aircraft going on patrol to the mid-Atlantic had to fly north until they reached the coast at Derry. They then flew westwards to protect shipping convoys bringing essential supplies from America to Britain.

Their range was limited, as was the range of planes flying from America.
Consequently, there was an unprotected section of ocean known as the ‘Black Gap’ where U-boats could operate free from detection.

But in January 1941 this changed after hush-hush talks between de Valera and Sir John led to Sunderland and Catalina flying boats being permitted to fly from Lough Erne across the portion of the Free State, as the Republic was then known, between Belleek and Ballyshannon.
This meant the planes could extend their range by over 100 miles and cover a large portion of the ‘Black Gap’.

The first official flight along the four-mile ‘Donegal Corridor’ took place on February 21, 1941.
A total of 320 men died in 41 missions involving Erne-based flying boats.

The plaques carry identical inscriptions commemorating airmen and seamen from America, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Britain and Ireland who flew along the corridor.

The Ballyshannon memorial was unveiled by local man Sean Slevin who recalled pulling bodies from wrecks at nearby Abbeylands and Tullan Strand when he was a wartime member of the LDF.
- Anita Guidera

Want more on the Donegal Corridor and how the ArchAngel Institute is using it? Then goto www.archangelinstitute.org or point your browser to flythecorridor.com.

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On inquiry:  Ireland’s role in World War II  — the concept of feigned or biased neutrality.

There is no better example in recent history of feigned or biased neutrality in war than the original Donegal Corridor.

My research began with the leading living authority on the concept, Joe O’Loughlin a historian from Belleek, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Island. He has published a discussion of the Corridor on the internet that he has dubbed Voices of the Donegal Corridor. It is a presentation of the historic facts that gave birth to this flight path across the Irish Free Republic, followed by interviews with Allied airman and the Irish civilians who aided them.Two months ago, I tried to make email contact with Mr. O’Loughlin. The link failed. I recently discovered another link on the web, and asked him to review yesterday’s post on this blog. His response after reading it was as follows: “wow that was almost too profound for words. very sobering stuff.”

I am flattered and thankful to have made contact with this Irish historian. All that follows in green is from his research on the Corridor:

It is not common knowledge that during World War Two the Government of the then Irish free State allowed the allied aircraft based at Fermanagh to fly over their neutral territory direct to patrol the Atlantic.

The Donegal Corridor and Irish Neutrality during World War Two

When the decision was made to use Lough Erne as a base for flying boats to patrol the Atlantic the planes had first to fly north, then go around the coast of Donegal so as to avoid any infringement of the neutral Free State territory, before going on their way out into the Atlantic to provide protection to shipping convoys against the German U-Boats. Planes from Canada and the U.S. after it entered the war, could offer protection for a considerable distance eastwards, the Lough Erne planes could fly a like distance westwards. There was still a large portion of un – protected ocean known as “The Black Gap”. A meeting took place between the Irish and British Governments on January 21st 1941. There can be no doubt but that Churchill was fully aware of this meeting. The result was that permission was given by the deValera led government for the planes from Lough Erne to fly across that short portion of Free State territory from Belleek to Ballyshannon. This flight path became known as “The Donegal Corridor”, the boundaries of this path were clearly defined, as was the height that planes would fly. They were not permitted to fly over the Irish Army Camp at Finner. For the benefit of the Germans and to preserve the neutrality the purpose of the flights was supposed to be for air/sea rescue exercises. This agreement meant that the un-protected gap in mid Atlantic was reduced by at least 100 miles. The Catalina and Sunderland flying boats had a range of almost 2,000 miles for a return journey and could stay airborne for almost 20 hours.
Thousands of patrols were flown from Lough Erne along the Corridor, at least nine U-Boats were confirmed sunk, many more damaged, thousands of tons of shipping saved. From 1939 until 1941 before the Lough Erne bases were set up, the U-Boat packs had sunk 1017 allied supply ships.

Navigational markings are still, faintly, visible on mountains, such as

Slieve League. There were many unfortunate crashes into these mountains. The bodies of dead airmen were handed over at the border. At the border the Guard of Honour performed a drill with reversed arms, a Bugler sounded the Last Post and a Chaplain gave a Blessing. An Allied officer, embarrassed that the coffins’ journeys were being continued in open lorries, thanked the Irish for the

“honour”. The reply was: “Ours is the honour, but yours is the glory“.

The fine Irish historian who penned the above is now my new friend, Joe O’Loughlin.