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A dense fog covered the icy waters of the North Atlantic Ocean on August 6, 1942, as a massive Allied convoy circled ...
In ‘Operation Biting,’ Max Hastings narrates a daring action by British special forces that could have come from the pen of ...
The RSPCA is investigating a boat moored on the Gold Coast with eight German Shepherds crammed on board. A revised ...
On March 24, 1916, the French steamer Sussex was struck by a German torpedo during a cross-Channel voyage, initially mistaken ...
The U-853, which lies 121 feet deep and 8 miles east of Block Island, was one of many German U-boats that brought a mostly faraway war to the coastal United States. Advertisement ...
The German U-boat U-853 sank the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. ... Berlin had cabled its subs to stand down, but U-853 either didn't get the message, or decided on one final attack anyway.
German submarines sank 56 Allied ships in the region and damaged another 14, losing just one of their own in the process ...
The last living crew to see the last U-boat attack gave this author permission to publish the story with his last breath in 2018. In April of that year a German-American woman named Luise Coley ...
In April 1945, New England’s worst naval disaster of World War II took place just 5 miles off the coast of Cape Elizabeth, when a lone-wolf German U-boat arose from the murky depths of Casco Bay ...
Despite the crew’s vigilance, they did not detect U-578, a German submarine that had already seen action against the Soviets off Norway. This was the boat that destroyed The Resnor, and would ...
The German U-85 went down with all 46 hands aboard — the first German U-boat sunk by a U.S. Navy ship since ... After the Pearl Harbor attack, he was recalled east, where he was ...