The sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis is widely known as a shark story—but the truth is much more horrifying.

Flickr/Grille1991 The U-Boat Attacks off Myrtle Beach German submarines hunted ships off South Carolina in early 1942, bringing World War II to American shores. From January to June, Nazi U-boats sank ...

Just weeks before World War I ended, a German U-boat attack turned the Irish Sea into a graveyard, claiming over 500 lives in ...

William Sharp of Little Egg Harbor found New Jersey's biggest lobster on July 4, 2003, in 70 feet of water, a record that can ...

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

I’ve long been intrigued at mentions of a sunken German U-boat explored by divers in Rhode Island waters. But I’d never known if that was a sign World War II naval battles happened close 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 ...

The German U-boat U-853 was sunk off the coast of Point Judith, Rhode Island, in May 1945, marking the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may ...

The Hidden History of the Nazi U-Boats That Prowled the Gulf Coast, Bringing World War II to America’s Shores Between 1942 and 1943, German submarines sank 56 Allied ships in the region and ...

An American oil tanker sinks in 1942 after being torpedoed by a German U-boat. In 1942 and 1943 over 50 oil tankers, freighters and other ships were sunk by German U-boats in the Gulf of Mexico ...

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 ...

The German U-85 went down with all 46 hands aboard — the first German U-boat sunk by a U.S. Navy ship since America entered the conflict.