The Discovery of German U-Boat U-166 in the Gulf of Mexico
The German U-Boat U-166 was sunk by a US Navy patrol boat in 1942. The Navy thought at the time that the U-Boat had escaped, and its...
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Jun 30, 2019
U Boats in the Gulf of Mexico: Torpedoed Tankers and the Oil Supply during WWII
On May 5, 1942 the German submarine U-507 sank two tankers, the Munger T. Ball and the Cudahy, in the Gulf of Mexico west of the Everglades.
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