"Phantom Fleet" is a meticulously researched account of the daring 1944 U.S. Navy mission to capture Nazi submarine U-505, blending high-stakes naval drama with the pivotal intelligence breakthrough t ...

On June 4, 1944, the US Navy captured its first German submarine. Now it's displayed at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science ...

A German U-boat brought WWII to RI's doorstep. Now it lies on the ocean floor Underwater imagery shows the sunken remains of the German submarine U-853 in Rhode Island waters.

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The German U-boat U-853 sank the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may have entered Narragansett Bay before the U.S. officially entered WWII ...

During the Battle of the Atlantic, German U-boats terrorized civilian and military shipping across the ocean, causing widespread death and destruction.

In April 1945, New England’s worst naval disaster of World War II took place just 5 miles off the coast of Cape Elizabeth, when a lone-wolf German U-boat arose from the murky depths of Casco Bay ...

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The German U-85 went down with all 46 hands aboard — the first German U-boat sunk by a U.S. Navy ship since America entered the conflict.

The other pic has connections with Milford in WWI, it's a captured German U-boat, U112, which Admiral Dare, the Naval Base commander brought to Milford for public viewing, and seen here with a crowd ...

What you call them depends on where they're made. A U-boat is nothing more than the Anglicized term for a German submarine and isn't strikingly different from U.S. subs.