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 ...

The Battle of the Atlantic began in July and continued for 11 months, with U-boats claiming some 712 merchant victims. They were sinking ships at more than twice the replacement rate, and new U ...

However, in the mid-1980s the discovery — or, rather, re-discovery — of three German U-boats entombed in an ... heralded on ...

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 Short Sunderland played a vital role during World War II, primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic. Tasked with countering ...

In May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck proved formidable, sinking HMS Hood and damaging Prince of Wales while evading ...

The Navy's newest destroyer the USS John Basilone takes its name from the Medal of Honor recipient and hero of the Battle of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

For the record, not a single soldier was killed by U-boat attack while being transported (always in convoy) across either the Atlantic Ocean or the English Channel. 'Pattern' camouflage was ...