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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- SHIPS of the GERMAN NAVY --

U-571 (Submarine, 1941-1944)

U-571, a 749-ton Type VIIC submarine, was built at Hamburg, Germany. Commissioned in May 1941, she operated against Allied shipping in the Arctic, Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, sinking and damaging several merchant ships. On 28 January 1944, an Australian patrol plane sank U-571 west of Ireland.

This page features our only views related to the German submarine U-571.

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  • U-571, World War II German Submarine

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    Photo #: 80-G-61599

    MS Pennsylvania Sun

    (U.S. Merchant Tanker, 1938)

    Burning after she was torpedoed by the German Submarine U-571 about 125 miles west of Key West, Florida, on 15 July 1942.
    Photographed from a Naval Air Station, Key West, aircraft.
    Pennsylvania Sun was saved and returned to service.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 94KB; 740 x 600 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 80-G-61600

    MS Pennsylvania Sun

    (U.S. Merchant Tanker, 1938)

    The Carpenter and a Sailor from the salvage ship USS Willett (ARS-12) use "Foamite" to fight oil fires on the Pennsylvania Sun, during salvage efforts on 16 July 1942. She had been torpedoed by the German Submarine U-571 about 125 miles west of Key West, Florida, on the previous day.
    Taken by a Naval Air Station, Key West, photographer.
    Pennsylvania Sun was saved and returned to service.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 68KB; 595 x 765 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     


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    12 April 2000