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 story is true. The German sub officially was known as U-166. It was among a fleet of 23 sent to the Atlantic Ocean in the ...

On the surface, there's little evidence that the Gulf of Mexico coast line was a World ... In 1942 and 1943, German U-boats patrolled the Gulf, blockading the ports of Mobile and New Orleans ...

Scientists used submersibles to explore a German U-boat sunk 7 miles off the Rhode ... who recently investigated a U-166 off the coast of Mexico with National Geographic and the PBS program ...

Silent and shadowy, two hulks lie under the Gulf of Mexico’s warm waters ... of the American steamer SS Robert E. Lee and the German U-boat U-166, about 45 miles south of the Mississippi ...

The U-boat commander, Oberleutnant zur See Hans-Günther Kuhlmann, and the 51 men in his crew went down with their sub. It is the only German sub known to have sunk in the Gulf of Mexico during ...

On May 19, 1942, Lucille Downs was 11 years old and her brother was 8 when the ship they were sailing on was intercepted by a German U-boat near the mouth of the Mississippi River and sunk with ...

NEW ORLEANS -- The Gulf of Mexico continues to hold historic World War II treasures, from sunken ships to one of Hitler's U-boats. This week a diving expedition captured new images of the German ...

A diving expedition in the Gulf of Mexico ... of other U-boat attacks to New Orleans. Twenty-five passengers and crewmen aboard the ship were killed. Another 404 survived. The German submarine ...

Binoculars, plates emblazoned with swastikas among finds. Nov. 23, 2013— -- Researchers have apparently discovered the remains of a World War II-era German U-boat and the skeletons of its ...