The Type seven and Type nine were the striking force of the Kriegsmarine during the Battle of the Atlantic - a German attempt to cut off the British Isles and force the Allies to surrender. In the ...

or U-boats, sunk, scuttled, captured, or otherwise lost to German forces during World War II. Here, naval historian Timothy Mulligan describes 25 of the most historically significant U-boats.

The crew of the submarine U-1206 were forced to abandon the vessel after its high tech toilet malfunctioned; its wreckage ...

The ship was transporting supplies and soldiers along the coast when it was torpedoed by German U-boat U-861 on the ... to send troops to fight in World War II on behalf of the Allies, which ...

Such was life aboard a Wellington bomber hunting for the elusive U-boats in the Atlantic Ocean in 1945 during World War II. John Herbert "Bert" O'Leary celebrated his 100th birthday in Melbourne ...

They were designed to engage in a deadly game of cat and mouse, luring in surfaced U-boats as British crews pretended to escape in “panic parties” before a German submarine commander blew up ...

As the US military sought new ways to move large ... Strahan, author of "Andrew Jackson Higgins and the Boats that Won World War II," details Higgins' progressive, efficiency-minded approach ...

The weapon would be the submarine, U-boats. On a desolate mud bank in the salt marshes of Kent lies the metal carcass of a First World War German U-boat. British ships were blockading German ports ...