At dawn on Feb. 28, 1942, according to the Navy, it was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Delaware. The crew of the USS Jacob Jones spotted the German torpedo coming at them ...
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.
The USS Jacob Jones was sunk by a German U-boat in late 1917, killing more than half of its crew. By Nicholas Slayton Posted on Feb 18, 2024 For the first time in 107 years, something from the USS ...
By 1914 the submarine was not a new weapon, having first been used 150 years earlier. By the start of WW1 all the major ...
The Super Sub is the fastest personal submarine in the world, also offering exceptional maneuverability for climbs and sharp ...
Did you know? In WWII the British troop ship, RMS Laconia, was sunk by a German U-boat. The U-boat captain Werner Hartenstein immediately ordered the rescue of as many survivors as possible ...