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, the submarine's capture was top-secret.

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 ...

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

THREE submarines used by the Nazis during World War II were discovered buried ... and Walter Cloots discovered and explored the U-boats. In the 1990s, the German government decided to fill the ...

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 ...

One of the deadliest military machines of World War II ... German Navy. By the time World War I crept around, the U-1 was already obsolete, but later models participated in the conflict. U-boats ...

Allied task groups dubbed “Hunter-Killer[s]” methodically attacked, scuttled and destroyed German U-boats, one by one ... sub help expedite the end of WWII? It was absolutely critical.

Haddow was aided in his research by Historic New Orleans Collection Chief Curator Jason Wiese, who located World War II ... photos taken in 1919 or 1920 after World War I, when a German U-boat ...