Since the scuttling of the U-boat fleet in Operation Deadlight by the Royal Navy at the conclusion of World War II, the world has paid little attention to German submarines. Now, with the ...

Peter Leith (L) made the journey from Orkney to Shetland on U-Boat as a sea cadet A man from Orkney has been recalling how he took to sea in a German U-boat as a young sea cadet in a once-in-a ...

The fate of a WW2 bomber navigator ... evidence in a German submarine captain's log book that the bomber was hit by anti-aircraft guns fired from the deck of a German U-boat in the Bay of Biscay.

In many areas of Europe, it's hard to escape the visual reminders of World War II's devastating impact ... re-discovery — of ...

or U-boats, sunk, scuttled, captured, or otherwise lost to German forces during World War II. Here, naval historian Timothy Mulligan describes 25 of the most historically significant U-boats.

Last summer, the U ... boat ride home and the subsequent victory parades. But the use of camouflage helmets likely helped inspire future American camouflage patterns. By the outbreak of World War ...

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.

Salvaged and renamed Sailfish, the boat served to the end of World War II ... to the German submarine force, as the "happy time." Fleet headquarters in Germany directed U-boat operations by ...

Boasting a 51-year career, the U.S.S. Missouri initially launched from the Naval Shipyard in Brooklyn in 1944.

Still, Thayer showed us ... German army borrowed its ally's design, while the Soviets and Americans tried to replicate it.