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Hours after being called home in May 1945, the German submarine U-853 tempted fate in combat off Rhode Island...
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HistoryNet, Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero
“Stand by for a ram!” rang Lieutenant Charles Hutchins’ command throughout the USS Borie during the evening hours of October 31, 1943. Steaming at 22 knots past the Azores, the Borie closed in on the German U-405. What ensued was an...
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Military History Magazine
German submariner Peter Petersen survived three patrols aboard U-518. He missed the fourth—during which it was lost with all hands. The tide of war turned in the Atlantic Ocean during the summer of 1943. For three years, Germany’s ping...
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World War II Magazine
Survivor Ray Downs tells the story of how he almost lost his family at sea after a German U-Boat attack during World War II. ...
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Military History Magazine
In 1918 the idea that any war could ever again touch American shores was considered very far-fetched by many U.S. citizens. Newspapers were filled with victories and defeats on the fields of Ypres and the Somme, true. But that was in...
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Military History Magazine
To the Last Salute: Memories of an Austrian U-Boat Commander by Georg von Trapp, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2007, $21.95. This memoir was originally published in 1935, but unless you could master Bis zum letzten Flaggenschuss,...
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Aviation History Magazine
In their quest to give U-boats eyes in the sky, the Nazis developed and tested two small sub-carried spotter aircraft. When it comes to creating extreme aircraft—both good and bad—it’s difficult to outdo Nazi Germany....
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MHQ Magazine
The Cunard liner's captain expected a safe Atlantic crossing, but a German U-boat would bring Lusitania's journey to a devastating end...
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World War II Magazine
Lingering Threat From a Toxic U-Boat More than 62 years after its violent demise off the coast of Norway, the German submarine U-864 has become a menace once again. Because of its cargo— 1,857 now-rusting canisters holding about 65 tons...
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American History Magazine
Submarine warfare comes to Massachusetts beach town in 1918...
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World War II Magazine
Long-lost photographs document the final mission of a U-boat rebel. At 9:30 p.m. on July 9, 1942, the German submarine U-564 slipped out of the harbor at Brest, on the northwest coast of France. It was based there in a cavernous bunker...
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World War II Magazine
Fond Memories of a Fallen Hero Your article “The Horticulturalist Who Got the Best of Bombs” (January/February 2010) brought back memories of my youth and stories I had heard from my family about the war. In the 1920s my uncle—my...
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World War II Magazine
Stalin Raises a Ruckus at American D-Day Memorial Should he stay or should he go? A heated war of words erupted in a Virginia town this summer when a sculpture of Stalin was added to the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford—a small town...
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MHQ Magazine
In 1916 a German “merchant” submarine suddenly popped up in Baltimore. It went on to sink 43 Allied ships during World War I. AS THE FOG LIFTED JUST AFTER DAWN ON July 9, 1916, people along the shores of the Chesapeake Bay...
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World War II Magazine
Decades-Long Search Leads to Discovery of U-Boat Off Nantucket The salvage team had spent two days far off Nantucket Island aboard the 45-foot dive boat Tenacious, pinging the depths with sonar. Night was coming. Suddenly the sonar picked...
