Almost 80 years have passed since the end of the Second World War, and there is still fascination about German U-boats that ...
The man who’s a curator at The Military Museums and has held national leadership roles with the country’s military reserves ...
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 ...
Due to the risk of marauding U Boats of the Imperial German Navy patrolling the English ... One of the officers, speaking in fluent English, asked for details of the ship they had just sunk. Having ...
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, ...
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 ...
The tragedy of soldiers being sunk in the larger targets of British ... Fighting brutal weather, their deadliest enemies are ...
Blocking the harbour meant stopping the U-boats. HMS Vindictive was joined on ... sailed splutteringly across the Channel, and sunk in the mouth of Ostend harbour. As it went down, its 55 crewmen ...
For example, the Guadalcanal, guided by intercepted signals, dispatched Avengers that sank two U-Boats west of Spain early ... the crippled carrier had to be sunk by a U.S. destroyer with the ...
This is not to say that submarines have not sunk other submarines ... Kingdom had long ago cracked the Enigma code, which German U-Boats used to communicate with the Naval headquarters.
I checked off an item on my bucket list this month by feasting on New England’s fall foliage — in person. Since moving to ...