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

I think I may have submechanophobia. The very thought of being submerged underwater in a solid metal casket loaded with explosive torpedoes chills me to the core. And yet, for Adolf Hitler, ...

The nightmares of Allied cargo shipping, the German U-Boats reigned supreme in the turbulent seas during 1940-1942. Taking one of these U-Boats as an example, the U-505 submarine sunk an impressive 8 ...

She gives us each a simple form to fill out while she outlines the rules, saying visitors must always be accompanied and ...

J Nielsen, Concord, NSW Begin with a leisurely Bateaux Mouches boat trip along ... one of the few German cities to emerge virtually unscathed from World War II. We’re planning a driving tour ...

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

On Saturday night, 4 June 1966, the ‘In Black and White’ column of the mass-circulation Herald had a front-page story headed, ‘German U-boat ... Walter Silvester priest, U-boat commander’. In his 1966 ...

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This West German movie is an adaptation of Lothar-Günther Buchheim's novel of the same name, which draws heavily from his own experiences aboard a U-boat during World War II. The film chronicles ...

Tanganyika was the largest German ... United States in the Spanish-American War. Japan occupied them between the World Wars. The United States has administered them since the end of World War II.

In WWII, no warship gave the potent British Royal Navy headaches like the German ... all US Navy battleships except the Iowa-class. It displaced roughly 65,000 tons, outweighing the biggest ...

Kraken defenseman and avid history buff Jamie Oleksiak has taken quite well to new pairing partner Brandon Montour and is off to one of the better starts of his career ...