The German U-boat U-853 was sunk off the coast of Point Judith, Rhode Island, in May 1945, marking the last U.S. merchant ...

German submarines sank 56 Allied ships in the region and damaged another 14, losing just one of their own in the process ...

The story is true. The German sub officially was known as U-166. It was among a fleet of 23 sent to the Atlantic Ocean in the ...

Benjamin Lowy / National Geographic Five German submarines from World War I, and a further eight from World War II, have been found ... to hunt down the U-boat at a site where they believed ...

As the USS Borie prepared to ram a German U ... in search of U-boats, during World War II. The USS Card, an escort carrier, and the destroyers USS Goff and USS Barry rounded out the task force.

On May 2, 1942, a German U-boat sank ... two crewmen out of the ocean and took them to a German POW camp in Prussia. US Navy image The 80th anniversary of one of World War II’s strangest sagas ...

Over eight decades ago, the US Navy made the historic capture of a Nazi U-boat during World War II. A treasure trove of vital German intelligence ... Setting out on an anti-submarine sweep ...

One of the deadliest military machines of World War II was the ... and boot = boat. Once you break it out, it makes sense, and U-boat is simply a shortened version of the German word, though ...