They stalked Allied ships in silence, deadly and unseen. Then, one by one, they were destroyed — sent to the ocean floor by torpedoes, depth charges, and the tides of war. But some didn’t stay lost.
On June 4, 1944, the US Navy captured its first German submarine. Now it's displayed at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science ...
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.