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During that time, U-boat captains became so confident that on Feb. 28, 1942, U-578 torpedoed the destroyer Jacob Jones off Cape May, New Jersey; only 11 of its 114-man crew survived.
The German U-boat U-853 sank the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may have entered Narragansett Bay before the U.S. officially entered WWII.
Germany completed its first U-boat (the U-1) in 1905 and was the first nation to use a submarine during World War I. By comparison, the U.S. Navy commissioned its first sub (the U.S.S. Holland) in ...
Recovered WWI German u-boat revives 'sea monster' tales. ... the most important of which was that they up-gunned it from an 88-mm to a 105-mm gun," McCartney said. ... the U-boats had this gun, ...
Germany's U-505 submarine was the 1st warship captured by the US Navy in over a century and top secret during World War II. See photos of the inside.
Revisit Baton Rouge’s Harding Field, uncover a German U-Boat in the Gulf of Mexico and talk with the men of the 760th Tank Battalion. This poignant essay on Louisiana’s role in the war salutes ...
The wreck of the German U-Boat U-111 was intentionally sunk by the U.S. Navy in 1923 after it was captured at the end of the war.
It's the German submarine U-576, resting on its side, right where it sank in 1942. Its wooden deck plates have rotted away after 74 years underwater.
The German U-85 went down with all 46 hands aboard — the first German U-boat sunk by a U.S. Navy ship ... Icarus’ crew initially thought them swarming to their 88mm gun and fired their ...
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