72 Years Later, Snubbed Captain Credited With Downing German U-Boat. High-resolution mapping sheds new light on battle off the coast of Louisiana. By Brian Clark Howard. December 19, 2014 ...

Erik Larson discusses the captains of the German U-boat and the Lusitania. ** This clip is part of C-SPAN Classroom's FREE resources for teachers and students. Visit www.c-spanclassroom.org for ...

The last surviving German U-Boat captain, who terrorized the Atlantic off North Carolina's Outer Banks early in World War II, has died at age 105. Reinhard Hardegen described his exploits to the ...

After securing proper permission, the clever U-boat captain dropped anchor just off the aptly named Rose Island in Newport Harbor, bellowing from a megaphone to the naval brass assembled at the ...

During that time, U-boat captains became so confident that on Feb. 28, 1942, U-578 torpedoed the destroyer Jacob Jones off Cape May, New Jersey; only 11 of its 114-man crew survived.

Off the North Carolina shore, recreational divers have explored three German U-boats submerged since World War II ended. Now, archaeologists are getting involved to preserve them.

German U-boat captain Reinhard Hardegen, who was seen by some as a war hero who did his job and by others as a terrorist who killed innocent civilians, died June 9 at the age of 105. Responsible fo… ...

University of Notre Dame military history professor Ian Ona Johnson talked about what life was like on German Type VII submarines, and the impact of the U-boat captains.