It was the only suicide of a submarine commanding officer during a war patrol for all of World War II ... of the boat. And the U-505, in either a final slap in the face of its German crew ...
The fate of a WW2 bomber navigator ... evidence in a German submarine captain's log book that the bomber was hit by anti-aircraft guns fired from the deck of a German U-boat in the Bay of Biscay.
or U-boats, sunk, scuttled, captured, or otherwise lost to German forces during World War II. Here, naval historian Timothy Mulligan describes 25 of the most historically significant U-boats.
These Zeiss binoculars were acquired by the current owner’s father, who was a submarine commanding officer during World War II. On May 10th, 1945, all the German U-boats were told to surrender.
Simple History Rationing in WWII (British Homefront) Posted: November 14, 2024 | Last updated: November 14, 2024 At the start of the war, German U-boats began to destroy merchant ships in the ...