Painted Rock Mountains The Gila River crosses all of southern Arizona from southwest New Mexico, and is the drainage for about 1/2 of Arizona (the south). The highest elevation in the mountains is "unnamed" at , and is located at the central & east region of the range. (The range has many northwest-by-southeast ridgelines.) Painted Rock Mountains The Painted Rocks Mountains are a short 15-mile (24 km) long mountain range of the north-central Sonoran Desert southwest of Phoenix, Arizona and in southwest Maricopa County. The Gila River flows through the central-north end of the range. The famous Painted Rock Petroglyph Site lies at
German submarine U-505 one botched patrol her crew found a sign painted in the docking area reading: ""U-505"s Hunting Ground". At a time when many U-boats were being sunk, "U-505"s commander, "Kptlt." Zschech, overheard another U-boat commander joke, "There is one commander who will always come back ... Zschech." After ten months in Lorient, "U-505" departed for her tenth Atlantic patrol, seeking to break her run of bad luck and bad morale. On 24 October 1943, not long after crossing the Bay of Biscay, "U-505" was spotted by British destroyers east of the Azores and was forced to submerge and endure a severe