What the records say
- When
- Mar 1942
- Kind
- Military operation
- Coordinates
- 15.00° N, 75.00° W
- Description
- 1942 submarine warfare of the German Kriegsmarine in the Caribbean Sea
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Operation Neuland
Naval operation during the Second World War
Operation Neuland was the code name of the Kriegsmarine extension of unrestricted submarine warfare into the Caribbean Sea during World War II. German U-boats demonstrated range to disrupt British petroleum supplies and American aluminum supplies which had not been anticipated by Allied pre-war planning.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “операция «Нойланд», неограниченная подводная война немецкого военно-морского флота в Карибском море”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page