A Deepwater World War II Battlefield: The German U-boat, U-166, and Passenger Freighter Robert E. Lee
Author(s): Robert Church; Daniel Warren; Robert Westrick
Year: 2016
Summary
During World War II, Germany sent their U-boats to the Gulf of Mexico to conduct warfare on merchant shipping. As a result approximately seventy merchant vessels were sunk or damaged with only one U-boat lost in the Gulf of Mexico during that action. The wreck sites of the German U-boat, U-166 and it last victim the passenger freighter Robert E. Lee were first investigated by archaeologists in 2001. Fourteen years of historical and archaeological research reveals the intricacies of this deepwater battlefield.
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A Deepwater World War II Battlefield: The German U-boat, U-166, and Passenger Freighter Robert E. Lee. Robert Church, Daniel Warren, Robert Westrick. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Washington, D.C. 2016 ( tDAR id: 435051)
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Keywords
General
Battlefield
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Deepwater
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World War II
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
World War II
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 228