Just a couple of stories today:
Researchers located an amphibious US truck at the bottom of
the 600 foot deep Lake Garda. The truck
is likely the one that sank with 24 men while attempting to storm Italian
dictator Mussolini’s refuge near the end of WWII on 30 April 1945. The DUKW, as it is known, was carrying men of the US Army’s 10th
Mountain Division, 85th Infantry Regiment. Photos show the submerged truck but there
are no indications of the men who were listed as missing in action. More here.
DUKW amphibious truck
DUKW amphibious truck
10th Mountain Division, between 0830 and 0910 14 April 1945, Bologna, Italy
10th Mountain Division, 87th Mountain Infantry, Co K, covering another squad in Sassomolare, Italy, Porretta Moderna Highway,
4 March 1945
10th Mountain, 8th Infantry regiment, marching north near Malcesine on Lake Garda, 29 April 1945 (the day before the reported DUKW sank in Lake Garda)
About a month ago, a
major survey was published of shipwrecks off the coast of Ireland. The survey has plenty of photos and shows
such things as a tanker sunk during WWII, Sherman tanks that had been
loaded on the ship, the 1870s wreck of the ironclad battleship HMS Vanguard, a
WWI dreadnought battleship, a German U-Boat and many more. More here.
HMS Vanguard at anchor ca. 1870-1875
The tanker, the Empire Heritage, had been carrying numerous
Sherman tanks. After being torpedoed by German U-boat U-482 on September 8, 1944, survivors were picked up by the rescue
ship Pinto. The Pinto was fired on by
the same U-boat and sunk. Another ship arrived for those survivors.
Kapitänleutnant Hartmut Graf von Matuschka, Captain of the U-482 that sunk the Empire Heritage and Pinto
Type VII C U-boat, same type as U-482 but different U-boat
pictured
Sherman tanks in European theater, 1943
Sherman tank in Sicily, 1943
The joys of military related nautical archaeology...
Some WWII and other shipwreck information websites below:
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