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The ruins of the SS Nantes, a ship that sank over 100 years ago, were recently discovered off of the coast of England, ...
In the early 1990s, American divers uncovered a mystery off the coast of New Jersey: an unmarked German submarine resting ...
Former Friars great rejoins the basketball program as an assistant coach; and 12 stunning spots to photograph in RI this ...
This original article has been re-written to include ten men from Covington County who participated in the D-Day invasions ...
German submarines sank 56 Allied ships in the region and damaged another 14, losing just one of their own in the process ...
Italy gets a bum wrap for its poor showing in the Second World War. Benito Mussolini was the first fascist dictator to rise ...
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 spring of 1942 on a mission called Operation Drumbeat, the Nazi code name ...
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 ...
There are more than a dozen German U-boat wrecks from both World Wars in ... four-hour ascent to the surface. (Rise too fast and the gas inhaled under pressure at 400 feet would bubble out of ...
Depth charges launched by the Edsall-class destroyer escort USS Chatelain, which detected the German vessel with sonar, jammed the U-boat's rudder and flooded the aft compartment, forcing the vessel ...