A lot of the later subs escaping from Germany towards the end of the war had treasures on them. They were taking to the a secret hide out so the 3rd Reicht could rebuild & it’s leaders could live out their lives in leisure.
Whoa, no wonder nobody could find it! I mean, who’s gonna look for a submarine on a beach?
Someone should remind the Smithsonian that a Submarine is a boat, not a ship.
is that a picture of the actual sub recovered and restored?
At least he knew which one he was looking for. I remember a show about a sub that had been found off the coast of New Jersey that they couldn’t identify for some time. In the meantime, they referred to it as “U-?” or “U-Who?”
It ended up being the U-869 which had been thought lost off Africa.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-869
That’s amazing, the black box battery must of died in the 50s.
German WW2, U Boat 534 at Birkenhead Docks, Merseyside, England
I got to see a program about Wanda Jackson instead. She was the first female rockabilly singer and dated Elvis. She’s still rockin’ and quite a lady.
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.
