The U-boat was not some near-mythical creature as it was almost portrayed by the Allied media, nor even was it a drone built ...

Flickr/Photograph Curator U-505 Submarine The German submarine crew thought they were about to die. Their U-boat was sinking, ...

In ‘Operation Biting,’ Max Hastings narrates a daring action by British special forces that could have come from the pen of ...

Early on June 29, 1942, the 8,032-ton British steam tanker HMS Empire Mica cruised east through calm waters toward Key West, ...

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.

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.

The last living crew to see the last U-boat attack gave this author permission to publish the story with his last breath in 2018. In April of that year a German-American woman named Luise Coley ...

In April 1945, New England’s worst naval disaster of World War II took place just 5 miles off the coast of Cape Elizabeth, when a lone-wolf German U-boat arose from the murky depths of Casco Bay ...

Despite the crew’s vigilance, they did not detect U-578, a German submarine that had already seen action against the Soviets off Norway. This was the boat that destroyed The Resnor, and would ...

Under the command of Lt. Cmdr. Maurice Jester, the Coast Guard cutter Icarus, shown here, sank a German U-boat off the North Carolina coast during WWII. (U.S. Coast Guard) After the Japanese ...