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EPISODE · Mar 14, 2014 · 7 MIN

German War Diary from U505

from A History of the Navy in 100 Objects · host United States Naval Academy

Video 52 in the series "A History of the Navy in 100 Objects" presented by the United States Naval Academy. This is about a German war diary from U505.

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As WWII raged, supply convoys from the United States and Canada faced off with the German U-boat "wolfpacks" throughout the Atlantic Ocean. Although the Wolfpacks nearly crippled the allied war effort early in 1941 and 1942, eventually the Allies were able to turn the tide, culminating in the devastation inflicted inflicted on the German submarine squadrons in 1943. May 1943 became known to the Germans as "Black May." Today's object was captured from a German submarine by American sailors one year later in a daring boarding of a sinking u-boat.

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