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I'm from houma, and i just learnt about this. Also, my vocational school, (Terrebonne Career Technical High) is the old airbase that a plane that shot at another u boat, but was originally accredited for sinking the u 166 launched from. cool shit
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I find myself torn when it comes to these wrecks. Half of me says leave them as they are,,, war graves. The other says bring the boat and the men home.
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how did they identify it, I didn't see the nember on the side. also I noticed what looked like fwd and aft deck guns. that's somewhat unusual isn't it.
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Fantastic condition. The hatch is still closed, shut for the final time in 1942.
The Crew of E/V Nautilus returns to do a mapping of the remains of U-166 that was sunk in the Gulf Of Mexico in 1942 . This is the only U-boat sunk in the Gulf during WW2..... Sunken German U-Boat Found in Gulf of Mexico Published: June 10, 2001 The wreckage of a World War II German submarine has been found 5,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, and the discovery may rewrite a bit of wartime history. BP and Shell Oil Company, which had been surveying the gulf floor for an oil pipeline, announced the discovery of the U-166, which was sunk in 1942 after it torpedoed an American ship, on Friday. ''This is the find of a lifetime, it really is,'' said Robert Church, a marine archaeologist with C&C Technologies, which identified the wreckage about 45 miles from the mouth of the Mississippi River. An airplane was long thought to have sunk the U-166 in 1942. The plane bombed a submarine on Aug. 1, 1942, two days after the U-166 sank the Robert E. Lee, an American passenger freighter. But the location of the submarine suggested that the Robert E. Lee's Coast Guard escort sank the U-166, said Jack Irion, a marine archaeologist with the United States Minerals Management Service.