Posted on 04/19/2014 2:50:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A German submarine sank to its watery grave somewhere off the coast of South America in 1943. This is the exact moment it's discovered.
Secrets of the Third Reich: The Ghost of U-513
The pride of the wolfpacks, German sub U-513, became a tomb for all but seven of her crew after being bombed by a U.S. patrol plane in 1943. The U-boat then vanished off the South American coast, where it was lost for more than 68 years. Now, witness the ghost ship's story through rare archival footage and interviews with U-boat vets, and follow the Brazilian entrepreneur who set out to uncover her buried secrets.
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Thanks JPB!
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And they started the search somewhere in the Southern Indian Ocean, oddly enough.
If memory serves, sub crews refer to surface vessels as “targets”.
And why men get hernias, but women get hystorectomies?
The crew survived by holding their breath. Sure, they’re really old now, but man, are they tough.
Interesting story. The attack on Crete is still framed as some strange species of victory by the losers (UK); I’ve always thought it odd that Hitler forbade further large scale paratrooper assaults after that one, since on the eastern front he shrugged off losses, saying they were just “paying the butcher’s bill”.
Is this the one that took the moon-colonizing Nazis to Antarctica?
My father was down in Florida at that time and he said he used to go to the beach and watch the Brit tankers burning close offshore. If Donitz had sent 40 U-boats instead of just 20 it might have ended the war for England.
good question..
what is the difference between a ship and a boat??
easy..
ships carry boats...
if it does not carry a boat, then it is a boat
That particular sub, depicted on land, is a U-Boot museum in Germany. That sub was never sunk, served in the Norwegian Navy until 1961 and was converted to museum by the Germans.
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