On June 4, 1944, the US Navy captured its first German submarine. Now it's displayed at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science ...

Germany's U-505 submarine was the 1st warship captured by the US Navy in over a century and top secret during World War II.

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.

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 ...

A German U-boat brought WWII to RI's doorstep. Now it lies on the ocean floor Underwater imagery shows the sunken remains of the German submarine U-853 in Rhode Island waters.

British archaeologists recently discovered more than 40 German U-boats sunk during World War I off the coast of England. Now they are in a race against time to learn the secrets hidden in their ...

This company, founded by Carl Zeiss in the mid-1800s, has revolutionized optics and made modern chip production a reality, without which our high-tech world would collapse.Zeiss’ contribution to ...

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 Low-Stakes Race to Crack an Encrypted German U-Boat Message A ramshackle team of American scientists scrambled to decode the Nazi cipher before the time ran out. Luckily, they had a secret weapon.

The German Navy's Unterseeboot, or U-boats, were some of the most legendary ships of World War II – German U-boats were very different from modern submarines, but that didn't make them any less ...

The German Navy has boasted that it is the quietest submarine in operation today, and a total of six Type 212A U-boats were commissioned between 2004 and 2015.