The German Submarine branch of the Kriegsmarine was one of the most fear-inducing branches of the German military apparatus during the Second World War. It wasn’t always that way though. As a matter ...

This week will see the 75th anniversaries of two notable military incidents that occurred off Rhode Island's shores. On May 5, 1945, just days before the end of the war in Europe, the German submarine ...

Yet during World War II, the crew of a brand-new destroyer escort ... but built to protect Allied convoys from the ever-present menace of German U-boats. Named after Aviation Ordnanceman John D.

Key point: The Kriegsmarine had dispatched Seewolf towards American shores to lower the pressure on its submarine operations in European waters. In the closing weeks of World War II in Europe, ...

The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the war—flying messages from submarine-hunting blimps during a time when radio ...

A German U-boat that sank off the British coast during World War II has been captured on camera in remarkable images. The pictures were taken by diving contractor Dive Newquay, which took a group of ...

Submarines were key for Allied and Axis forces throughout World War II. At the war's onset, Germany's fleet of U-boat submarines created a distinct advantage for the Nazi's Kriegsmarine.According to ...

BOSTON -- Divers have discovered a World War II-era German submarine nearly 70 years after it sank under withering U.S. attack in waters off Nantucket. The U-550 was found Monday by a privately funded ...

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, ...

RAF Mosquitos were famed for speed and precision, and their low-level raids on German U-boats were among the war’s riskiest ...

The HMS Thistle was a British sub that sank after being hit by a German vessel in 1940. Researchers initially thought the wreck could be that of the HMS Oxley instead. A crew of Norwegian maritime ...