During World War II, German submarines, or U-boats, wreaked havoc on Allied shipping. Using tactics and stealth and aided by intelligence reports on the merchant vessels, U-boats targeted these ...

German submarines sank 56 Allied ships in the region and damaged another 14, losing just one of their own in the process ...

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency chief historian Gary Weir discussed lessons the U.S. Navy learned after World War I German U-boat attacks on the Atlantic Coast. Mr. Weir argued that the ...

Two minutes after 5 p.m. on the afternoon of June 15, 1942, thousands of startled spectators from Virginia Beach to Old Point Comfort saw the Battle of the Atlantic come to Hampton Roads in a spect… ...

Now, the British, obviously very vulnerable, to U boat attacks, developed a strategy to overcome that, and these were called Q ships. [00:03:18] Michael Muir: So the answer to a U boat is a Q ship ...

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-853, which lies 121 feet deep and 8 miles east of Block Island, was one of many German U-boats that brought a mostly faraway war to the coastal United States. Advertisement ...

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the American entry into World War II, the German high command dispatched packs of German submarines across the Atlantic. The U-boat commanders had ...

Constructed at the docks of Hamburg, Germany, the U-505 was one of the German navy's Type IX-class submarines, a long-range attack boat developed with longer dive times and agility compared to its ...

The German U-boat U-853 sank the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. ... Berlin had cabled its subs to stand down, but U-853 either didn't get the message, or decided on one final attack anyway.

Well, I just looked into it, and it turns out they did. The U-853, which lies 121 feet deep and 8 miles east of Block Island, was one of many German U-boats that brought a mostly faraway war to ...