[A] German U-boat has been visited by marine archaeologists working off the shores of Texas in the Gulf of Mexico.

[I]n addition to marauding merchant shipping in the North Atlantic, Nazi naval commanders dispatched 22 U-boats to the Gulf of Mexico.

Historians claim that U-boats sank at least 50 American ships in the Gulf — including one in the very mouth of the Mississippi River. The U.S. Navy was only able to sink one U-boat in the Gulf.

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