During World War II, the German submarine U-505 terrorized Allied shipping across the Atlantic until American destroyers and aircraft hunted it down off Africa, captured it intact with secret Enigma ...
I’ve long been intrigued at mentions of a sunken German U-boat explored by divers in Rhode Island waters. But I’d never known if that was a sign World War II naval battles happened close to America.
The German U-boat U-853 sank the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may have entered Narragansett Bay before the U.S. officially entered WWII.