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See inside a WWII-era U-boat, the only submarine that the US Navy captured intact and towed home
In 1944, a US Navy task group hunted ... German intelligence was vital during WWII, making recovery efforts for the sinking U-boat a top priority for the Navy task group. German Capt.
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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the Consolidated XPY-1
and with some being used as flying boat trainers well into WWII, with the last examples in US Navy service retiring in 1943 and the last export models being retired in Argentina in 1946.
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How an often overlooked World War II-era shipbuilder designed the boat that Eisenhower said 'won the war for us'
Higgins manufactured more than 20,000 boats during his decades-long career. His landing craft were used in every major amphibious assault of World War II ... that got the US Navy's attention ...
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See inside a WWII-era U-boat, the only submarine that the US Navy captured intact and towed home
Over eight decades ago, the US Navy made the historic capture of a Nazi U-boat during World War II. A treasure trove of vital German intelligence, the submarine's capture was top-secret.