Uboatarchive.net archives information about World War II submarine battles
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U-boat Archive
Description
This site offers a narrow and U.S. centric view of the U-boat War because all the records and photographs are from the National Archives at College Park Maryland. The Army and the Coast Guard played major roles in the conflict but most U-boat related material is found in the records of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. These records were transferred from the Navy Historical Center in Washington D.C. to the U.S. National Archives at College Park Maryland in 1996. Materials at the archives are separated into Record Groups. Navy records from World War II are found in Record Group 38.
Photographs are viewed on the fifth floor of the Archives. There are over 18,000 photographs in Record Group 38. Finding aides for the Navy collection consist of 3" X 5" index cards with subjects listed alphabetically. Each photograph is numbered. Navy photographs are numbered 80 G XXXXXX with the X's numbers between 1 and 999,999. There is a small Coast Guard collection with numbered 26 G XXXX. Most photographs in Record Group 38 are 8" X 1 0" black and white prints mounted on 11" X 14" cardboard. A small number of photographs are found in the textual records. A few of the photographs on this site, for example photographs taken from POWs, are found in the Textual Records section of the Archive stored along with the written records they depict.
Textual records are viewed on the second floor of the Archives. Finding aides for Record Group 38 consist of lists of the contents of various boxes of records. Records are grouped by type and in some cases by the departments and divisions of the Naval staff. Records found on this site are from the following groups: Action Reports listed by the names of ships and aircraft squadrons, records and materials collected from survivors of sunken U-boats and amassed during the interrogation of survivors by the Office of Naval Intelligence, Various records of the U.S. 10th Fleet, records and photographs associated with ASW Incidents. When the report of an attack on a U-boat reached the Chief of Naval Operations Staff, an ASW incident number was assigned and used to track all the records and materials associated with that incident.
Contact
- U.S. Navy
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- Norfolk VA
- United States 23508
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- +1.7576251220
