Flickr/Photograph Curator U-505 Submarine The German submarine crew thought they were about to die. Their U-boat was sinking, ...

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.

May 1943. Captain Oscar John Lohr hears the silence break—a torpedo strikes, and seawater floods in. A deadly U-boat wolf pack is closing in fast. As lifeboats hit the waves and periscopes rise ...

A wolf pack of 13 German U-boats, later joined by three more, detected and pursued convoy SC 107, a 42-ship fleet with five warship escorts heading from Canada to the United Kingdom. Although an ...

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 ...

On 9 November 1942, 31 B-17s and 12 B-24s took off from England and attacked the German U-boat base at Saint-Nazaire on the west coast of France. The B-17s, flying between 7,500 and 12,000 feet, faced ...

Under the command of Lt. Cmdr. Maurice Jester, the Coast Guard cutter Icarus, shown here, sank a German U-boat off the North Carolina coast during WWII. (U.S. Coast Guard) After the Japanese ...

Lt. Cmdr. Maurice Jester was awarded the Navy Cross for sinking a German U-boat. (U.S. Coast Guard) On May 8, Icarus left Staten Island, New York, for Key West, Florida.

In the early 1940s, with hundreds of ships leaving Canada's East Coast in convoys, the German government responded with the wolf packs, groups of deadly submarines, sinking scores of merchant ships.

Harry Cooper is the founder of Sharkhunters International, a company that organizes tours to sites that were historically important to the Third Reich, such as the Wolf’s Lair, Hermann Goering’s house ...