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Bofors 40 mm and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon. USS Harder (SS-257), a Gato -class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the harder, a fish of the mullet family found off South Africa. One of the most famous submarines of World War II, she received the Presidential Unit Citation. [ 6 ]
German submarine U-864. German submarine. U-864. German submarine U-864 was a Type IXD2 U-boat of Nazi Germany 's Kriegsmarine in World War II. On 9 February 1945, she became the only submarine in history to be sunk by an enemy submarine while both were submerged. U-864 was sunk by the British submarine HMS Venturer, and all 73 men on board died.
This is a list of submarines of World War II, which began with the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 and ended with the surrender of Japan on 2 September 1945. Germany used submarines to devastating effect in the Battle of the Atlantic, where it attempted to cut Britain's supply routes by sinking more merchant ships than Britain ...
Tautog. (SS-199) USS Tautog (SS-199), the second Tambor -class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the tautog, a small edible sport fish, which is also called a blackfish. She was one of the most successful submarines of World War II. Tautog was credited with sinking 26 Japanese ships, [7] for a total of ...
USS. Grayback. (SS-208) USS Grayback (SS-208), a Tambor -class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the lake herring, Coregonus artedi. She ranked 20th among all U.S. submarines in total tonnage sunk during World War II, with 63,835 tons, and 24th in number of ships sunk, with 14.
The Gruppe Monsun or Monsoon Group was a force of German U-boats that operated in the Pacific and Indian Oceans during World War II.Although similar naming conventions were used for temporary groupings of submarines in the Atlantic, the longer duration of Indian Ocean patrols caused the name to be permanently associated with the relatively small number of U-boats operating out of Penang ...
United States Submarine Operations in World War II by Theodore Roscoe is a classic history of the role of the United States Navy submarines in World War II, earning him the title of "grandfather" of World War II American Submarine historiography. [1] Because the book was written shortly after the war, later scholars have found errors or ...
USS Albacore (SS-218) USS. Albacore. (SS-218) USS Albacore in Measure 9 camouflage (dull black) off Groton, Connecticut, on 9 May 1942. USS Albacore (SS-218) was a Gato -class submarine which served in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II, winning the Presidential Unit Citation and nine battle stars for her service.