The U-166, one of dozens of German subs sent to the U.S., sank the Robert E. Lee with one torpedo before the U-boat itself was broken in two by a depth charge from the Lee’s naval escort.

The Gulf of Mexico continues to hold historic World War II treasures, from sunken ships to one of Hitler's U-boats. Author: WWL Staff and WWLTV.com (WWLTV) Published: 12:55 PM CDT July 16, 2014 ...

A diving expedition in the Gulf of Mexico just south of the Mississippi River has produced stunning new images of one of Hitler's U-boats from World War II.

Houston, Texas (KHOU) On the floor of the Gulf of Mexico sits a Nazi ship of ghosts, a sunken U-boat whose 52 crewmen died under almost a mile of water just south of the mouth of the Mississippi ...

A team spearheaded by the deep-sea explorer who found the Titanic has been searching a little-known ship graveyard located in the Gulf of Mexico that includes the only known Nazi U-boat to have ...

In 1942 and 1943, German U-boats patrolled the Gulf, blockading the ports of Mobile and New Orleans and disrupting military and commercial traffic. These U-boats reportedly sank 41 ships in the ...

Revisit Baton Rouge’s Harding Field, uncover a German U-Boat in the Gulf of Mexico and talk with the men of the 760th Tank Battalion. This poignant essay on Louisiana’s role in the war salutes ...

In 1942 and 1943 over 50 oil tankers, freighters and other ships were sunk by German U-boats in the Gulf of Mexico, many of them near the mouth of the Mississippi River.

Early on June 29, 1942, the 8,032-ton British steam tanker HMS Empire Mica cruised east through calm waters toward Key West, Florida, where it planned to join a convoy bound for the United Kingdom.

A German U-boat torpedoed the Norlindo on May 4, 1942, off Southwest Florida’s Dry Tortugas, and it sank so quickly that five of the 28 men aboard did not have time to escape.