Painted Rock Mountains 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 the northeast end of the range, adjacent the Painted Rock Reservoir, and the reservoir lies at the eastern end of the agricultural river valley that is locally names as the Lower Gila River Valley, extending approximately from the Colorado River at Yuma to the west and the reservoir at the east.
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