In the final weeks of the war, the Navy hunted down and sank five German submarines in the North Atlantic. They stopped what ...
The post-war narrative of the German U-boat efforts follows several stages: the first “Happy Time,” followed by the second “Happy Time,” and then utter destruction by the Allies. In reality, the ...
Schmalenbach, Paul. German Raiders: The Story of the German Navy's Auxiliary Cruisers, 1895-1945. 1980. Symonds, Craig L. World War II at Sea: A Global History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018 ...
Summary: The Treaty of Versailles imposed severe restrictions on the German navy, leading to the innovative design of pocket battleships to circumvent these limitations. These ships, though effective ...
The boarding party that captured U-505 on June 4, 1944. (Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago) Once the hunters of the Atlantic ocean, the German wolfpacks by 1944 had become the hunted. Allied ...
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