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U. German submarine U-22 (1936) German submarine U-47 (1938) German submarine U-116 (1941) German submarine U-122 (1939) German submarine U-180; German submarine U-184; German submarine U-193; German submarine U-196; German submarine U-206; German submarine U-209; German submarine U-240; German submarine U-337; German submarine U-338; German ...
During World War II, the U.S. Navy's submarine service suffered one of the highest casualty percentage of all the American armed forces, losing one in five submariners. [3] Some 16,000 submariners served during the war, of whom 375 officers and 3,131 enlisted men were killed, resulting in a total fatality rate of around 22%.
The German U-boat arm (U-Bootwaffe) (UBW) lost 12 U-boats during this time. Post-war, the official Royal Navy history - by Capt. Stephen Roskill - concluded, "The Germans never came so near to disrupting communications between the New World and the Old as in the first twenty days of March 1943."
U-boat losses experienced by the Kriegsmarine during 1942 following the entry of the United States Navy into the Battle of the Atlantic, coupled with declining German shipbuilding capability to replace battle losses, saw the U-boat fleet redeployed to the primary Atlantic convoy routes to disrupt the Allied war resupply effort; this effectively ...
German submarine U-47 was a Type VIIB U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. [1] She was laid down on 25 February 1937 at Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel as yard number 582 and went into service on 17 December 1938 under the command of Günther Prien.
For the first time ever, scientists are getting a crystal-clear look at a fascinating, and haunting, piece of WWII history -- the only submarine the Nazis lost in the Gulf of Mexico. Media outlets ...
German submarine U-480 was an experimental Kriegsmarine Type VIIC U-boat of World War II.. Considered by many to be the first stealth submarine, it was equipped with a special rubber skin of anechoic tiles (codenamed Alberich, after the German mythological character who had the ability to become invisible), that made it difficult to detect with the Allies' ASDIC (sonar).
The category covers German submarines that went missing during either World War I or World War II. Fate unknown. Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable.