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 ...

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 ...

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… ...

During World War II, German U-boats dealt significant damage to Allied shipping. The submarines used stealth and strategic tactics, augmented by intelligence gathered on merchant vessels, to ...

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 ...

During just six months in 1942, Tougias said, German U-boats sank more than 400 ships off the East Coast of the United States and in the Gulf of Mexico. ... had survived a U-boat attack in 1942.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...