Nice Food photos
Some cool food images:
USS Salem park: what appears to be a World War 2 Nazi German miniature submarine
Image by Chris Devers
This photo may make the sub look larger than it really is. In reality, the fuselage is no more than maybe 6 feet above the ground, and note that it’s sitting on a wooden frame as well.
It’s maybe 30 feet long, and if you figure that there had to be room inside the shell for an engine, ballast, etc, I can’t see how it would have been able to have a crew of more than 3 or 4 people, maybe 6 if they really pack them in, and didn’t also need room for things like fuel, food supplies, weaponry, etc.
It must have been a reconnaissance craft, launched from a larger ship or maybe a plane, but it’s probably too big for anything smaller than a Hercules, and I don’t think anything that big existed yet during World War Two. So probably ship-launched then, short range surveillance.
You hear stories about how the American mainland was never attacked or really threatened during World War Two, but there were occasional incursions by German submarines. I’d always assumed this meant full size ships, but now that I think about it, at least some of those stories must have meant smaller craft like this one.
Indeed, it may be that this very boat was captured while patrolling off the coast of Massachusetts during the war. I wasn’t able to find out anything about its story (obviously), but would be happy to learn more.
