Just weeks before the Second World War ended in 1945, the submarine with 40 German sailors on board was apparently forced to surface after filling with chlorine gas following On , a German navy submarine named the U16 departed from the port city of Kristiansand, in Nazioccupied Norway, and began its first combat patrol Assigned to the U16 was part of the VIIC series, an advanced class of German submarine designed to evade detection and sink enemy convoys with deadly efficiency For its time, it was a
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