Louisiana untold

DID YOU KNOW?

More Allied ships were sunk by German submarines in the Gulf of Mexico during World War Two than were destroyed in the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.  And the only German U-Boat lost in the during the conflict was sunk off the coast of Louisiana.

Lost among the histories of major World War Two battles with Nazi Germany are a series of attacks on American ships along the Gulf coast of Louisiana and other southern states. The German navy called it Operation Paukenschlag, or Operation Drumbeat. It was Germany’s Second Happy Time, following the success of U-Boat attacks in the North Atlantic.