The Wreck of U-166 - Buried U-Boat off The Gulf Coast (Video)

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The U-Boat campaign off the United States' coast is pretty well known. Complacency on the American side, and daring on the German side. Combining in a perfect storm that saw many, many losses in the early days after the United States joined the war.

That said, not all those losses were American. Some U-Boats were lost too, including one particularly noteworthy one. U-166. A submarine sunk close off the Gulf Coast. This sinking became something of a controversy, in how the captain responsible was treated by the Navy.

But the boat, herself, is interesting all her own. After all, this wreck is quite possibly the most buried of any submarine wreck. Covered in silt all the way to her deck.

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Reminds me of when I visited the U-505 at the Science and Industry Museum in Chicago

I was there when I was about 10. But I learned much more when I had the opportunity to tour an operational US WWII-era sub maybe 15 years later.