Today in World War II History—March 16, 1941
Monday, March 16, 2026 by Sarah Sundin
German U-boat U-100, 1940 (public domain via Wikipedia)
85 Years Ago—Mar. 16, 1941: British destroyer HMS Vanoc becomes the first ship to track a submarine by radar (German U-boat U-100)—destroyers Vanoc and Walker will sink U-100 the next day.
In the first successful contested Allied amphibious landing of the war, British and Indian troops land at Italian-occupied Berbera in British Somaliland and take Berbera.
