The Battle of the Caribbean was fought during World War II (1942-1945). German U-boats attempted to disrupt the Allied supply of oil and other material. They sank shipping in the Caribbean Sea and attacked the oil refinery in Aruba. Improved Allied anti-submarine warfare eventually drove the U-boats out of the Caribbean, resulting in an Allied victory.
German submarines shelled a Standard Oil refinery on Dutch-owned Aruba on February 16, 1942, ca...
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The Battle of the Caribbean was fought during World War II (1942-1945). German U-boats attempted to disrupt the Allied supply of oil and other material. They sank shipping in the Caribbean Sea and attacked the oil refinery in Aruba. Improved Allied anti-submarine warfare eventually drove the U-boats out of the Caribbean, resulting in an Allied victory.
German submarines shelled a Standard Oil refinery on Dutch-owned Aruba on February 16, 1942, causing no damage.
A German sub shelled the island of Mona, some 40 miles from Puerto Rico, on March 3. No damage or casualties resulted.
An oil refinery on Curaçao was shelled on April 19.
On 11 September 1942 German U-Boat U-514 (Auffermann) torpedoed the Cornwallis steam merchant off the coastline of Bridgetown. The ship was brought ashore in Barbados before it was released and torpedoed a second time and sank.
The sinking of the Mexican tanker Faja de Oro and El Potrero de Llano by the German U-boat, U-160, on May 21, 1942 off Key West,...
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