Peter Leith (L) made the journey from Orkney to Shetland on U-Boat as a sea cadet A man from Orkney has been recalling how he took to sea in a German U-boat as a young sea cadet in a once-in-a ...

Almost 80 years have passed since the end of the Second World War, and there is still fascination about German U-boats that ...

The fate of a WW2 bomber navigator ... evidence in a German submarine captain's log book that the bomber was hit by anti-aircraft guns fired from the deck of a German U-boat in the Bay of Biscay.

or U-boats, sunk, scuttled, captured, or otherwise lost to German forces during World War II. Here, naval historian Timothy Mulligan describes 25 of the most historically significant U-boats.

In many areas of Europe, it's hard to escape the visual reminders of World War II's devastating impact ... re-discovery — of ...

The villagers of Mansfield Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire, led by local historian Barbara Berry, have dug deep into the ...

A historian has discovered details of the largest successful prisoner escape of the Second World War - in a breakout bigger ...

These Zeiss binoculars were acquired by the current owner’s father, who was a submarine commanding officer during World War II. On May 10th, 1945, all the German U-boats were told to surrender.

A day after Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, New Orleans-based shipbuilder Andrew Higgins filed an idea with the US Patent ... Higgins and the Boats that Won World War II," details Higgins ...