USS Menges (DE-320) was torpedoed by U-371 on 3 May 1944 during convoy escort in the Mediterranean. Thirty-one crewmembers were lost. U-371 was in turn sunk on 4 May 1944. In February 1945, Menges became part of an all U.S. Coast Guard-manned hunter-ki
Categories: World War II | Ships and Submarines
 
 
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