The nightmares of Allied cargo shipping, the German U-Boats reigned supreme in the turbulent seas during 1940-1942. Taking one of these U-Boats as an example, the U-505 submarine sunk an impressive 8 ...
The fate of a WW2 bomber navigator ... evidence in a German submarine captain's log book that the bomber was hit by anti-aircraft guns fired from the deck of a German U-boat in the Bay of Biscay.
Almost 80 years have passed since the end of the Second World War, and there is still fascination about German U-boats that ...
From as early as the end of 1939, the German High Command had plans to build submarine bunkers ... for the Eble II-based ...
Since 2000, at least 14 expedition crews have unsuccessfully tried to find the final resting place of the HMS Trooper, but the ill-fated World War II ... the submarine’s remains based on its ...
The British HMS Trooper submarine was lost in 1943 with 64 men on board. A Greek-based underwater recovery team located the submarine 81 years later, finding it torn into three sections by a German ...
The USS New Jersey made waves when it was commissioned — the first submarine in the U.S. Navy's fleet designed specifically ...
The German U-boat casualty rate was even higher at 75 percent. Point being submarines were uniquely dangerous. But a lot has changed since World War II. Submarines aren’t used as rampantly as ...
German submarine-hunting planes ... a multinational air unit based at RAF Cottesmore in Rutland between 1981 and 1999. Meanwhile, the US regularly deploys strategic bombers to the UK to work ...
In 1917 Britain and her allies were losing hundreds of ships every month to German U-boats. These deadly submarines patrolled the waters of the United Kingdom watching for ships to destroy.
is one of only 15 U.S. World War II-era submarines that still exist. It now serves as a walk-through exhibit alongside a museum with various war artifacts, including battle flags and a submarine bell.