Foreign Navy, WWII Atlantic

Operation “Mincemeat”

                                     TODAY IN NAVAL HISTORY                                                   30 APRIL 1943                                       OPERATION “MINCEMEAT” When the American 7th and British 8th Armies landed on southern Sicily 10 July 1943 they found lighter than anticipated resistance.  It seems the Germans had concentrated their defenses on the Read More

Gunboats, WWII Atlantic

The Controversy of PE-56

                                                  23 APRIL 1945                                     THE CONTROVERSY OF PE-56 On this day the 62 sailors aboard the Navy’s “Eagle”-class patrol craft PE-56 were carrying out the plan of the day, patrolling for German submarines off the Maine coast.  Duty on board such vessels Read More

Submarines, WWII Atlantic

U-604

                                                11 AUGUST 1943                                                          U-604 By November 1941, Britain was hanging tenuously, her economy smothering at the hands of German U-boats.  And on the 16th of that month, Germany’s position got incrementally better with the launch of yet another U-boat, U-604, in Read More