A wolf pack of 13 German U-boats, later joined by three more, detected and pursued convoy SC 107, a 42-ship fleet with five warship escorts heading from Canada to the United Kingdom. Although an ...

Revisiting the German U-boat menace. ... The U-boats sometimes worked in "wolf packs" of as many as 20 subs attacking our convoys that consisted of 30 to 70 merchant ships with naval protection.

In 1935 Karl Doenitz who was in charge of the German U-boat army, was convinced that the British would use a convoy system (as in WW1). He came up with the wolf pack tactics famous throughout the ...

The U.S. Navy turned the tide on U-boats by creating a special task group that's mission was to hunt down German U-boats. Carter was part of Task Group 223, which captured the U-505 off the coast ...

Divers have found wreckage from a German World War Two U-boat near the coast of Galicia in north-west Spain. U-966 was heavily damaged by Allied bombers in November 1943, so the crew blew it up ...

Although so-called U-Boat wolf packs would camp out in known sea lanes and hunt passing Allied shipping, the days were long. Before the widespread use of radar at sea to detect ships, virtually of ...

In 1935 Karl Doenitz who was in charge of the German U-boat army, was convinced that the British would use a convoy system (as in WW1). He came up with the wolf pack tactics famous throughout the ...

Divers have found wreckage from a German World War Two U-boat near the coast of Galicia in north-west Spain. U-966 was heavily damaged by Allied bombers in November 1943, so the crew blew it up ...