Steel Boats, Iron Hearts: A U-Boat Crewman's Life Aboard U-505 Thanks to the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry's exceptional display of the German submarine U-505, many people have been able to tour one of the most famous U-boats of World War II. Unfortunately, far fewer have be...
indicating that the U-196 departed the German U-boat base in La Pallice, occupied France, into the Bay of Biscay March 16, 1944 thence then into the Atlantic under orders for Penang, Malaysia. By early July she had passed east of Cape Town South Africa into the Indian Ocean arriving at...