On May 7, 1915, the RMS Lusitania was nearing the Irish coast when a German U-boat fired a single torpedo. Within 18 minutes, the ship had sunk, leaving over a thousand dead and just over 700 ...
Werner Hartenstein pulled drowning British troops from the Atlantic Ocean in September 1942. The German U-boat commander was flying Red Cross flags and even radioed for help in English. American ...
CHICAGO — Head curator Dr. Voula Saridakis liked to stand by the entrance to the balcony overlooking the U-505 Submarine exhibit at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago to see ...
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This Nazi mission stayed hidden for 40 years
In October 1943, a German U-Boat landed armed personnel on the coast of Labrador. Their mission wasn’t sabotage — it was weather. Station Kurt was an automatic meteorological station designed to ...
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