Almost 80 years have passed since the end of the Second World War, and there is still fascination about German U-boats that ...
U-869, the submarine profiled in the NOVA program "Hitler's Lost Sub," was just one of the more than 1,100 Unterseeboote, or U-boats, sunk, scuttled, captured, or otherwise lost to German forces ...
A fourth boat, U-2501, was sunk in front of the bunker. A rare image of Elbe II's three scuttled U-boats, prior to the ...
Tons of American-produced supplies and war matériel, as well as hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops, had only one way to get to Europe: in ships crossing the North Atlantic. German submarines, or ...
A diary handed down through three generations has helped find the wreck of a German U-boat sunk by a secret Royal ... They ...
Another boat joined the next day. After three days, the U-boats had sunk 17 of those ships, had intercepted two other convoys, and sent 21 more ships to the bottom, without a single U-boat loss.
Between March 1917 and the end of the war a month after the Leinster was hit, U-boats sunk 13 million tons of shipping bound for Britain, with the loss of about 5,000 lives. It was a policy which ...
The man who’s a curator at The Military Museums and has held national leadership roles with the country’s military reserves ...
HMS Pathfinder was sunk in 1914 off the coast of Scotland. German submarines – called U-boats – had been active from the start of the war. They largely targeted British naval ships but they ...
They were used to entice U-boats to the sea's surface and then attack ... James Simpson's diary helped locate a German U-boat sunk by a Royal Navy Q-ship Mr Taylor said some historians had ...