In 1917, the unseen German U-boat U-58 was ambushed after a U.S. destroyer lookout with an "extraordinary set of eyes" ...
On June 4, 1944, the US Navy captured its first German submarine. Now it's displayed at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science ...
U-boat commander Friedrich Guggenberger became a national hero after sinking the "unsinkable" HMS Ark Royal. Later, after his ...
This undated photo, provided by the National WW II Museum in New Orleans, shows Oberleutnant zur See Hans-Gunther Kuhlmann, center, saluting commander of the German U-boat U-166 on his boat. The U-166 ...
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 ...
Growing up surrounded by World War II veterans, most of whom refused to discuss their service fighting the horrid fascist ...
This imposing concrete structure in the German city of Bremen is 1400 feet long, 300 feet wide and 90 feet high, and looks every inch the secret Nazi facility that it is. Its purpose was to build and ...
The remains of World War II wharfs where the German U-Boats famously surrendered to the Allied Forces at Lisahally has been ...
Although they lost World War II, the Nazis were more technologically advanced than their Allied rivals in multiple ways. Berlin’s problem was scale—and trying to do too much with too few resources.
When World War II came to Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast, it wasn’t in the form of grainy newsreel footage from the other side of the world. Instead, right in front of us, smoke and flame ...