As World War II raged across Europe, German U-boats launched a brutal campaign to choke Britain’s vital supply lines. This episode explores the early triumphs of the German submarine fleet during the ...
USS Buckley: A Destroyer Escort in the Battle of the Atlantic Commissioned in 1943, the USS Buckley was a destroyer escort, smaller than a destroyer, but built to protect Allied convoys from the ...
Eminent scholar Roger Moorhouse recently spoke to Military Times to discuss his book, "Wolfpack: Inside Hitler's U-Boat War," ...
Now they are in a race against time to learn the secrets hidden. U-boats stranded on the south coast of England after the surrender of Germany in the First World War are surrounded by onlookers on ...
People like to make things more complicated than they need to be, and the words we choose to describe things are just one of those many ways. For instance, consider that all bourbons are whiskey, but ...
Over eight decades ago, the US Navy made the historic capture of a Nazi U-boat during World War II. A treasure trove of vital German intelligence, the submarine's capture was top-secret. See inside ...
Binoculars, plates emblazoned with swastikas among finds. Nov. 23, 2013— -- Researchers have apparently discovered the remains of a World War II-era German U-boat and the skeletons of its crew ...
The Brazilian Navy has confirmed that a wreck found in 2011 is that of a Brazilian auxiliary ship sunk in 1944 by a torpedo from the German U-boat U-861. About 100 lives were lost when the Vital de ...
The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the ...
The German U-boat U-853 sank the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may have entered Narragansett Bay before the U.S. officially entered WWII.
Accidents involving toilets typically only involve personal embarrassment, and rarely are they the cause behind the sinking of a specialized hunter-killer submarine. That's precisely what happened, ...