WWII
Hate to run into it: but a clever idea
Smart buggers… seems some of the “air vents” on at least one of the Normandy bunkers were a bit sneaky. While you would think an air vent a great place to drop a grenade – clear out the inside, and the walls would protect you, right? – some of the vents were piped back toward […]
Nazi warships scuttled at WWII end exposed by drought
At the end of WWII with defeat imminent, Germany decided to scuttle much of their Black Sea fleet. Dozens of warships went down at the mount of the Danube river. Some sank in shallow enough water to be permanent navigation obstacles, and now 20 are exposed by the drought which has been gripping southern Europe. […]
WWII Navy ship found more than 4 miles down, deepest wreck
The destroyer escort Samuel B. Roberts, sunk in the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944 (corrected from 1943 7/28/22), was found in over 22,600 feet of water last week by Caladan Oceanic, the same folks who found the world’s previous record-depth wreck, the USS Johnston, last year. The wreck of the USS Samuel B. Roberts, […]
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