This Map Shows the Full Extent of the Devastation Wrought by U-Boats …
WEBMay 7, 2015 · By the end of World War I, 344 U-boats had been commissioned, sinking more than 5,000 ships and resulting in the loss of 15,000 lives. The might of the U-boat, however, wasn't enough to hold...
Fighting U-Boats in American Waters - National Museum of the …
WEBBy January 1942, German submarines had moved into American coastal waters and posed a serious threat to U.S. and Allied shipping. During the first three months of 1942, German U-boats sank more than 100 ships off the east coast of North America, in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Caribbean Sea.
The history of submarine warfare off the Jersey coast - WHYY
WEBOct 4, 2018 · Well before America declared war on Dec. 8, 1941, German submarines, or unterseeboote, ranged the North Atlantic, seeking to cut off trade and starve the defiant British. Once the United States entered the war, it became open season for U-boat captains on ships off the East Coast.
US Coast - The U-boat War in Maps - uboat.net
WEBThe losses off the US East Coast were overwhelmingly in 1942 during Operation Drumbeat and its successor operations, but the U-boats visited the area throughout the war. This map, currently, includes ships lost in the Gulf of Mexico which has its own map.
Terror in the North Atlantic: Nazi U-boat Attacks on American Ships.
WEBSep 17, 2017 · By early December 1941, Americans were acutely aware of the almost daily sinking of ships by Nazi U-boats. The war, however, was in Europe, and Americans could read and hear about the terrible atrocities from the …
How the Sinking of Lusitania Changed World War I - HISTORY
WEBApr 17, 2018 · On May 7, 1915, a German U-boat torpedoed the British-owned luxury steamship Lusitania, killing 1,195 people including 128 Americans, according to the Library of Congress.
U-85 | Monitor National Marine Sanctuary
WEBU-85 is significant to American military history, maritime history and historic archaeology as it was the first German U-boat sunk by United States naval forces off the American East Coast during World War II's Battle of the Atlantic.
How German U‑Boats Were Used in WWI—And Perfected in WWII
WEBMar 21, 2022 · The first German U-boat arrived in American waters in May 1918 and sank 13 ships—including six in a single day—in addition to laying mines in American ports and severing two telegraph...
Torpedo Junction - U.S. National Park Service
WEBThe U-boats—their crews seasoned by two years of war and with no American defenses to concern them—roved at will and struck with predatory precision. As a result, Allied merchant ships went down in staggering numbers.
The Sinking of the SS - The National WWII Museum | New Orleans
WEBThis is the story of Michael McShane and how he survived the sinking of the SS Athenia, the first ship torpedoed by a U-boat in World War II.
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