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Posted on 02/08/2026 3:35:57 PM PST by MAGA2017
Awhile back, I covered U-166. A submarine rather famous for her sinking in the Gulf of Mexico. And, of course, the way her wreck is so deeply buried on the bottom.
Today, we'll be looking at another U-Boat lost off the American coast. This time the East Coast, in the form of U-576. A much smaller Type VII boat, though far more intact than her larger cousin. This submarine was sunk in...strange circumstances, to say the least.
Leaving a mostly intact wreck on the bottom, in the modern day. One with all the features of her class still recognizable, at that. Probably one of the best preserved U-Boat wrecks out there, I'd say.
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Thanks Tennessee Nana.
Please delete my Comment #20.
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Thanks.
The Germans had the same problem with their snorkel apparatus.
That would require the permission of the German government, which I doubt they would give. Hunley was a (Confederate) American vessel.
Only in international waters. Too close, too bad.
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They were really close to our shores. It’s ours. Duh.
Good deal, thanks.
“sunk by depth charges from two US aircraft”
I never knew aircraft dropped depth charges.
😂👍
BTW two books to read on the topic, if you haven’t.
Iron Coffins, by a surviving U-boat captain on the German U-boat war.
And Silent Victory, on the U.S. effort, primarily in the Pacific.
Most people have =zero= understanding how effective our fleet submarines were at wiping out Japanese cargo shipping. By the end of the war, between those and our air superiority, it was largely down to barges and little wooden auxiliaries. If the A-bombs hadn’t led to unconditional surrender, Japan in 1946 would have been starving to death by the millions.
31 minute video-come on! Freepers-our attention span is not that good.
PBY Catalina in RAF service dropping depth charges at low level
https://www.reddit.com/r/WWIIplanes/comments/18tu5ki/pby_catalina_in_raf_service_dropping_depth/
A college roommate’s dad flew PBY’s out of Bermuda for the U.S. Navy in WWII. The closed down seaplane base was still there on the Great Sound when we visited c. 1984.
There’s a nice cutaway PBY at the Pensacola Naval air museum.
Another good book on WW2 submarine warfare, from the German perspective, is ‘Operation Drumbeat’ which focuses on German subs operating in or near U.S. waters during the early years of the war. In fact I’m sure since the sub mentioned was sunk off N. Carolina in 1942, it would have been part of that operation.
USS Wahoo was sunk in Japanese waters. If they wanted to raise the wreck, should we have any say in it?
And the recovered Confederate crew remains on board the H.L. Hunley were interred in the Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston.
Using that logic...
NY should be called New Mecca.
It was a mostly forgotten disaster for us. They called it a seagoing Stalingrad because of so many ships sunk and so much equipment lost.
My mom told us they went to the Jersey shore that summer and one night they went to the top of the hill in Long Branch to watch a ship burning offshore.
Our families went to the Jersey shore every summer starting during WW2, and continuing afterwards. I was 7 when the war ended. I vividly remember how every time I went to the ocean I ended up with tar on my feet and suffered having mom remove it with turpentine which painfully burned the skin.
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