German U-boats targeted both cargo and passenger ships. On May 7, 1915, the U-20 sank the Lusitania off the coast of Ireland, killing nearly 1,200 people, including 128 Americans.

The U-3523's long range spawned theories that it carried senior Nazi figures and their fortunes to the safety of South America as Nazi Germany collapsed in 1945 A missing World War Two U-boat ...

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Explorers say they’ve found a British warship sunk by a German U-boat in WWI Explorers say they’ve found the wreckage of a British warship that was sunk by a German U-boat during World War I.

Sunken Nazi WWII ships have once again emerged in the River Danube, following a blistering summer drought that caused water ...

Netflix is now streaming one of the most underrated war movies made in the last 25 years. Find out what it is and why you ...

The Nazi threat brought Canada and the United States together to defend something that mattered. That started with divisive ...

Shipwreck hunters in Scotland have located the wreck of a British warship that was sunk by a German U-boat in the North Sea nearly 110 years ago. They said the wreckage is that of HMS Hawke ...

The U-boat skipper stared through his periscope through the murky September waters of the North Atlantic. He smiled at what ...

Elbert Hubbard joked before sailing that if the Germans sank the Lusitania, going down with the ship would secure his fame.

Explorers say they’ve found the wreckage of a British warship that was sunk by a German U-boat during World War I. Some 524 people, including the ship’s captain, perished when the HMS Hawke ...

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