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 ...

The German U-boat U-853 sank the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may have entered Narragansett Bay before the U.S. officially entered WWII.

Lt. Cmdr. Maurice Jester was awarded the Navy Cross for sinking a German U-boat. (U.S. Coast Guard) On May 8, Icarus left Staten Island, New York, for Key West, Florida.

A new book explains how Lucky Luciano and other mobsters helped secure New York's ports during World War II. Getty Images In the dark hours of June 13, 1942, a German U-boat surfaced off the coast ...

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 ...

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 ...