On October 15, 1914, a German sub captained by U-boat ace Otto Weddigen attacked the HMS Hawke, killing 524 crew members, ...
Almost 80 years have passed since the end of the Second World War, and there is still fascination about German U-boats that ...
When most people think of World War One, they think of trenches and machine ... Germany changed tack, putting their efforts into submarines called U-boats, which were cheap and could slip through ...
U-869, the submarine profiled in the NOVA program "Hitler's Lost Sub," was just one of ... or U-boats, sunk, scuttled, captured, or otherwise lost to German forces during World War II.
In many areas of Europe, it's hard to escape the visual reminders of World War II's devastating ... However, if one had been ...
The wreck site of a World War One warship has been identified after more than a century.
That was more submarines than the entire German U-boat fleet at the beginning of World War I; indeed, it represented more submarines than had ever been assembled for one battle at the same time.
Some 1.3 million Indian ... his experience of the war from India to the western front and Britain, and on to the Iraq front, with his troopship dodging German U-boats in the Mediterranean along ...
An American World War II warship that played a key role in Allied ... before being attacked by 26 carrier-dive bombers, ...
These Zeiss binoculars were acquired by the current owner’s father, who was a submarine commanding officer during World War II. On May 10th, 1945, all the German U-boats were told to surrender.
The USS Esdall, a 314-foot destroyer sunk by Japanese forces in 1942, was known as "the dancing mouse" for its ability to ...
More than 200 servicemen were killed when the U.S.S. Edsall was struck by Japanese dive bombers in March 1942. By Hank ...