Almost 80 years have passed since the end of the Second World War, and there is still fascination about German U-boats that ...

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 ...

Did you know? Winston Churchill claimed that the 'U-boat peril' was the only thing that ever really frightened him during WWII. This was when German submarines attacked the Atlantic lifeline to ...

The creation of a memorial to the Battle of the Atlantic in Liverpool ... part of wider plans to develop the U-Boat story visitor attraction and replace the ferry landing stage, which received ...

Three days of Battle of the Atlantic commemorations ... warships and merchant vessels once sailed to run the U-boat gauntlet in the North Atlantic. A forest of flags and standards from veterans ...

A World War Two veteran is being recognised for his service to protect merchant shipping during the Battle of the Atlantic ... risk of attack by German U-boats. Mr Booth, from Baguley in ...

The Battle of the Atlantic lasted as long as World War Two itself. By the summer of 1942 one Allied ship was going down every four hours, yet German U-boat losses remained frustratingly low.