The German U-boat U-853 sank the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may have entered Narragansett Bay before the U.S. officially entered WWII.
As someone who has always been fascinated by the U-boat campaign of the Second World War, "Wolfpack: Inside Hitler’s U-Boat War" by Roger Moorhouse immediately caught my attention. I’ve spent ...