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A German U-boat brought WWII to RI's doorstep. Now it lies on the ocean floor
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 ...
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Archaeologists Seek To Preserve German U-Boats
Original wartime U-boat hunters were military men trained ... Sponsor Message Heinz Richter, 85, was a teenage sailor on the U-352, a German sub that operated within 30 miles of the North Carolina ...
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Rare German U-boat clock salvaged by Plymouth sailor goes under the hammer
A rare clock salvaged from a German U-boat by a Plymouth sailor at the end of the Second World War is going under the hammer. The surrender of Hitler’s Atlantic fleet of U-boat submarines in ...
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German sailor helped US Navy seize U-505
Today marks 75 years since United States forces towed a captured German sub, U-505, into Bermuda waters under a cloak of secrecy. The U-boat was brought into the Great Sound with 57 prisoners ...
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See inside a WWII-era U-boat, the only submarine that the US Navy captured intact and towed home
Over eight decades ago, the US Navy made the historic capture of a Nazi U-boat during World War II. A treasure trove of vital German intelligence ... Only one sailor could stand in the tiny ...
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Diary and letters help find sunk WW1 U-boat
A diary handed down through three generations has helped find the wreck of a German U-boat sunk by a secret Royal Navy Q-ship in 1917. Henrietta Sandford, from Helston, shared diaries and letters ...