German submarine U-864 - Wikipedia
WEBGerman submarine U-864 was a Type IXD2 U-boat of Nazi Germany 's Kriegsmarine in World War II. On 9 February 1945, she became the only submarine in history to be sunk by an enemy submarine while both were submerged. U-864 was sunk by the British submarine HMS Venturer, and all 73 men on board died.
This Map Shows the Full Extent of the Devastation Wrought by U-Boats …
WEBMay 7, 2015 · As of April 1915, German forces had sunk 39 ships and lost only three U-boats in the process. U-boats played a pivotal role in helping Germany react to the economic offensive that Britain had...
Laconia incident - Wikipedia
WEBRMS Laconia, carrying 2,732 crew, passengers, soldiers, and prisoners of war, was torpedoed and sunk by U-156, a German U-boat, off the West African coast. Operating partly under the dictates of the old prize rules, the U-boat 's commander, Korvettenkapitän Werner Hartenstein, immediately commenced rescue operations.
British Royal Navy Sinks Three Nazi German U-Boats (1942) - YouTube
WEBApr 13, 2014 · This amazing footage from 1942 captures the British Navy sinking three Nazi German U-Boats during the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II. For Archive Lic...
Rare Photos of the Sinking of German U-boat U-118 During …
WEBA collection of photos of the German U-boat U-118 as it was being sunk by planes from the US Navy carrier USS Bogue in the Atlantic Ocean west of the Canary Islands on June 12, 1943. There...
How Allied Forces Used Code and Hunches To Turn the Tables on German U ...
WEBJan 17, 2023 · Late on the afternoon of June 4, aided again by Huff-Duff, Bogue Avengers attacked three U-boats, sinking none but damaging two. Then, early on June 5, an Avenger-Wildcat team sank U-217 , effectively clearing …
U-boat - Wikipedia
WEBThe U-boats failed to enforce a blockade but three sinkings of liners, with loss of American lives, outraged the US so that the Kaiser had to stop the campaign in September 1915: on 7 May 1915 SM U-20 sank RMS Lusitania; on 19 August SM U-24 sank SS Arabic; and on 9 September SM U-20 sank RMS Hesperian.
How German U‑Boats Were Used in WWI—And Perfected in WWII
WEBMar 21, 2022 · The U-boat fleet made its first strike on September 5, 1914, with an attack on a British light cruiser off the coast of Scotland that killed more than 250 sailors. Seventeen days later, U-9...
U-boat | German Submarine Warfare in WWI & WWII | Britannica
WEBSep 5, 2024 · In World War II Germany built 1,162 U-boats, of which 785 were destroyed and the remainder surrendered (or were scuttled to avoid surrender) at the capitulation. Of the 632 U-boats sunk at sea, Allied surface ships and shore-based aircraft accounted for the great majority (246 and 245 respectively).
1943: April 17: Sinking of German U-boat, U-175 - NHHC
WEBOn April 17, 1943, German (Type IXC) u-boat, U-175, was sunk by depth charges and gunfire from USCGC Spencer (WPG-36) in the North Atlantic, south-west of Ireland. Thirteen of her crew died...