In World War I, writes Chicoan and naval historian David Bruhn, “German U-boats sank over 5,200 vessels and came dangerously close to choking off Britain’s critical supply of food in the spring of ...
In the spring of 1943, convoy ONS 5 crossed the North Atlantic just as Allied codebreaking went dark and dozens of German U-boats closed in. Storms, scattered ships, fuel shortages, and constant ...
On today’s episode of The Infographics Show, we descend into a steel coffin beneath the Atlantic, where silence meant survival, and one wrong move meant death. Operation Raspberry turned Nazi ...
As World War II drew to a close, U.S. Navy intelligence suspected German U-boats equipped to launch V-1 rockets were preparing to hit New York City. The War Department dismissed the threat. The Navy ...
February 26 – marks 104 years since a hospital ship was sunk off the British coast - shortly after it left from Newport. HMS ...