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.
UC-97 became probably the only German submarine sunk within the continental United States. One of five U-boats turned over to the U.S. Navy for post-war study, she toured the Great Lakes as part ...
Not the Blitz bombing campaign, not the Nazis occupying nearby France, but silent, lurking German submarines. 2,937 ships were sunk by German U-Boats during WW2 -- per the Sunken Ships of the ...
Only last year the Melbourne Pallottine order accept publicly the evidence that Silvester was not a U-boat captain and had ...
Despite evasive maneuvers, the German U-boat was struck and sank with all 73 crew members aboard, ending its mission. Decades later, the wreck was found, with toxic mercury leaking into the ocean.
The fate of a WW2 bomber navigator who was missing presumed dead has been revealed thanks to the log book of a German submarine captain. The family of Leslie Fisher, who was a 33-year-old ...
Near the end of WWI Germany, was still putting new submarines into the Atlantic. A U-boat called the SM UC-97 was ...
During the war, Bell Island became a major supplier for the Allies. On the night of September 4th 1942, the German U-boat "U-153" under the leadership of Captain Lieutenant Rolf Rüggeberg penetrated ...
A team from Dundee University said submarine UC-71 was apparently scuttled off the German archipelago of Heligoland on 20 ... boat previously sunk 61 civilian ships in the North Sea. German WW1 U ...
On the way, they pulled off one of the most impressive naval feats of the war: capturing the German U-boat U-505 completely intact — including its valuable Enigma machines and the codebooks ...
But more than 180 civilian passengers, including US citizens, 76 crew and 20 postal workers ... admiral of the German High Seas Fleet, ordered that all U-boat attacks should cease while ...
For all intents and purposes, the U.S. under-20 women's national team was out of ... a long pass from Ally Lemos and raced ...