The U-3523's long range spawned theories that it carried senior Nazi figures and their fortunes to the safety of South America as Nazi Germany collapsed in 1945 A missing World War Two U-boat ...

World War II submarines usually had a distinct look, shaped more like boats than the conventional crafts. But was there a ...

The whole "boat" designation comes straight from the German word for "undersea ... and were capable of taking on surface ships 20 times their size. Meanwhile, the U.S. Navy -- which had considered ...

The U-boats' 15-knot surface speed was almost twice that of an average convoy and equal to that of most anti-submarine escorts. A German band welcomes a Type VIIC U-boat, the mainstay of the ...

A 103-year-old Royal Navy lieutenant commander has been sharing stories with Guernsey's Lieutenant Governor of his service ...

Maurice Jester was awarded the Navy Cross for sinking a German U-boat. (U.S. Coast Guard ... observing they were not making a surface fight of it, ordered “cease fire” while U-352 went ...

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.

An organization hopes to commemorate the 1942 sinking of an American destroyer, the first to be sunk after Pearl Harbor.

German U-boats had been laying waste to American vessels ... and eventually underwater microphones. (Submarines had to surface periodically to refresh their air and recharge their batteries.) ...

The air-to-surface vessel radar dome is visible ... until three weeks before the German surrender in May 1945, the U-boats struck. The worst year was 1942, when more than 1,000 Allied ships ...