Almost 80 years have passed since the end of the Second World War, and there is still fascination about German U-boats that ...
Not the Blitz bombing campaign, not the Nazis occupying nearby France, but silent, lurking German submarines. 2,937 ships ...
The British crew would get a prize for sinking a submarine, so there was "a motive to make this up", he said. James Simpson's diary helped locate a German U-boat sunk by a Royal Navy Q-ship Mr ...
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 ...
Before divers swam around the remains of the cruiser, no one had seen her since she was torpedoed by a German submarine ... have confirmed the sunken vessel is HMS Hawke. The cruiser fell victim to ...
Despite evasive maneuvers, the German U-boat was struck and sank ... This is not to say that submarines have not sunk other submarines. Indeed, the first such kill occurred in World War I, when ...
As the world’s navies grow, they strengthen below the waves as well as above. Several nations are betting big on submarines.
2,000 Allied ships had been sunk by the end of 1916, many by U-boats. These stark statistics frame the narrative in The Hunt for Lady Olive and the German Submarine (BBC Four). The Lady Olive was ...
On Oct. 31, 1994, President Bill Clinton signed the California Desert Protection Act, establishing Death Valley and Joshua ...
A diary handed down through three generations has helped find the wreck of a German U-boat sunk by ... known battle where a navy ship and a submarine had sunk each other, Mr Taylor said.