Boy’s Backyard Historical Finding

Published on 10/16/2017
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German Sub Found Near Nantucket

In 2012, a German U-550 submarine was found off of Nantucket, Massachusetts. There the sub had been attacking merchant ships and also creating blackouts in cities on the coast. Apparently, this U-550 torpedoed a gasoline tanker in April 1944. Despite hiding under the tanker, the USS Joyce located the sub and sent down depth charges. The sub resurfaced and was rammed by another of the American tanker escorts and the Americans attacked with two final depth charges, forcing the crew to abandon and explode the sub to scuttle it. Thus, the sub sunk and remained under water for close to 70 years!

German Sub Found Near Nantucket

German Sub Found Near Nantucket

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Hidden Bunker for Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels

During the 90’s, once the Berlin wall came down, a remarkable find from the war was uncovered. Once the city began reconstructing the underground infrastructure and working on the Holocaust memorial in 1997, construction workers found Joseph Goebbel’s WWII bunker. Somehow, it survived the Allied munitions at the war’s conclusion. Also a bunker was discovered for the SS Chauffeurs with Nazi murals all over the walls. However, finding Hitler’s bunker in 1999 was the climax of these discoveries. Also they found his bodyguard division’s bunker. Some of Hitler’s bunker had been damaged by Soviets right after the war. The authorities of Berlin sealed off the bunkers, not wanting any Nazi sympathizers to make it a shrine.

Hidden Bunker For Adolf Hitler And Joseph Goebbels

Hidden Bunker For Adolf Hitler And Joseph Goebbels

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