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More than 80 years after a Brazilian warship was sunk by a German submarine during World War II, the vessel's location ... to be a British cruiser sunk by a torpedo during World War I.
On April 24, 1945, the USS Flaherty, an Edsall-class destroyer, patrolled the North Atlantic as part of Operation Teardrop – ...
The WW2 German Navy (Kriegsmarine) employed seven main variants during the war, including the Type VIIA with 5 torpedo tubes and 11 torpedoes or 22 TMA mines, the VIIC with improved torpedo attack ...
Thousands of children are still learning survival skills at camps first created to teach young sailors how to withstand torpedo attacks from German U-boats. In 1941, Outward Bound opened their ...
Horace Bristol/U.S. Navy] The Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo ... most accounts, World War II officially began on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. As war began, German and Japanese ...
Roger Roberts aged 17 in his navy uniform signed up to fight in WW2. Whilst on board, the HMS Charybdis was hit by German torpedo boats in the English Channel in October 1943 and started to sink.
A volunteer organization that highlights the stories of fallen World War II service members is honoring ... Sea after their cargo ship was hit by a German torpedo. Michael Dragwa, 28, of Simpson ...
However, the ship’s active service in WWII lasted just 24 hours. The Cythera was on its maiden voyage as a patrol vessel — headed for Pearl Harbor — when she was attacked by the German ...
WASHINGTON — During the height of World War II, more than 900 service members ... a risk of being torpedoed and possibly sunk by the German submarines patrolling the area.