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USS Buckley engaged in one of World War II’s most surreal naval battles with German submarine U-66. After bombarding the ...
85 years ago, 11 Sunderland children set sail for Canada as they fled to safety - only two came home. Having waved goodbye to ...
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The German U-Boat Autogiro
During the Second World War the Germans experimented with an interesting rotary wing design known as a 'rotor kite'. These concepts would result in a fully functional spotting aircraft to be used by ...
When Nordwest-Mediengruppe launched a podcast featuring new discoveries about the famed U-96 U-boat, it found new audiences ...
In August 1942, he was given command of his own submarine - HMS Upspring, which conducted 14 patrols, and for this he was awarded the ...
Allied intelligence confirmed that Nazi Germany was developing “vengeance” weapons, including the V-2 long-range rocket, at Peenemünde on the Baltic Sea.
The 16-metre dugout canoe with two sails and an outrigger was made on the Island of Luf around 1890, intended as the funerary vessel for a chief. Taken by German colonialists soon after it was built, ...
Pvt. John Towle who, faced with a company-size enemy force with armor support and comported himself like a one-man anti-tank ...
A sunken 18th-century boat has been discovered by chance near the majestic stone walls of Croatia’s medieval city of Dubrovnik.
For them, it has been a key source of funds: Germany's Sea-Eye, which said rescue charities have saved 175,000 lives since ...