Chronology of World War II
Sunday, April 16
U-boat Crew Abandoning Ship
This April 16, 1944, photo provided by the US Navy shows crewmen of the German
U-550
submarine abandoning ship in the Atlantic Ocean after being depth charged by the USS
Joyce
, a destroyer in an Allied convoy that the submarine attacked. A team of explorers found the
U-550
Monday on the floor of the Atlantic about 70 miles south of Nantucket Island. (AP/U.S. Navy)