so it surfaced to recharge its electric engines and wait for assistance near the Cape Verde Islands. Sellers relayed the U-boat’s position to the nearest American ship, the destroyer escort Buckley.
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The Naked Sailor Who Boarded a Sinking U-Boat: Canada’s Wildest Naval Battle
August 1942. The Caribbean night explodes with depth charges as the Canadian corvette HMCS Oakville rams a German U-boat already crippled by U.S. bombers. Engines dead, Oakville drifts beside her prey ...
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The Convoy That Refused to Die: U-Boats’ Nightmare in the North Atlantic
February 1943. In the icy North Atlantic, German U-boats encircled Convoy ON-166, 63 ships hauling vital cargo from America ...
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 ...
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