U-boat, (“undersea boat”), a German submarine. The destruction of enemy shipping by German U-boats was a spectacular feature of both World Wars I and II. Germany was the first country to employ submarines in war as substitutes for surface commerce raid
CONTENTS: GERMANY: Recent Trends in the Use of Mines and Booby Traps / Artillery Tactics / New German Heavy Tank / Air Force / Miscellaneous // JAPAN: Japanese Use of Smoke / Notes on Boats and Ships in Amphibious Operations / Some Japanese Tactics Observed in Burma / Japanese Tactics at ...
Tanks were not the only pieces of equipment that could access this machinery but U boats and planes too. The British carried ‘bolt action rifles’ in which fired 15 rounds per minute at a minimum range of 1,400 metres away. This allowed the British to take out foes at a far greater ...
Here, dozens of ships — mostly merchant vessels — were sunk by German U-boats. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) estimates that from January to August 1942, more than 50 vessels were lost to the U-boat assault. The remains of those ships, along with several U-...
and six wheel drive. This excellent example is on display at the Army Transportation Museum at Fort Eustis, VA, which is on the north side of Newport News. This museum is well worth the stop for any person interested in Army trucks, small boats, aircraft, or rail stock. The U.S. Army...
London was bombed, and U-boats harried shipping on the Atlantic. But Germany hadn’t actually won the Battle of Britain or the Battle of the Atlantic. It was not producing airplanes or submarines fast enough. And what looked like victory in Greece and Crete had expended crucial resources in...
German soldiers open fire on a truck carrying the civilians, killing Anna's older sister. Pierson sends the truck away without protection, creating a rift with Turner. At the Battle of Hürtgen Forest, the platoon is ordered to take Hill 493. Turner splits the platoon into two groups; ...
“Some boats were burning and a pall of smoke hung over the beach. I saw some of the bodies of our soldiers who had been killed in the first landings floating in the water. Some of the boats were swamped in the choppy seas.
Doenitz in 1940 issued Standing Order 154 to his U-boats, “Do not pick up survivors and take them with you… The enemy began the war in order to destroy us, so nothing else matters.” and at his trial raised the question of why it was allowable to seek to kill people literally ...
U-251. Type VII U-boats were the most common type of German World War II U-boat. The Type VIIC was the workhorse of the German U-boat force, with 568 commissioned from 1940 to 1945. U-251 was sunk on 19 April 1945 in the Kattegat by rockets and strafing from eight British and ...