Wikimedia Commons/United States Army German POWs Escape from Camp Papago, Arizona Camp Papago Park held over 3,000 German ...

"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 ...

Generations of survivors of the world’s first nuclear bomb test have been excluded from any federal compensation.

The tranquility at Fort Hunt Park today offers no hint at the clandestine goings-on there during World War II. Today’s ...

Though today seen as slow, floating billboards, blimps once played a pivotal and unexpected role in World War II by helping the U.S. Navy hunt Nazi U-boats in the Atlantic. In 1942, as German ...

The Leukos was found 85 years after a German U-boat sank it off the Irish coast in 1940, killing all 11 crew.

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 ...

On May 7, 1915, a German U-boat sank the British liner Lusitania off the coast of Ireland, killing nearly 1,200 people.

Months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States had joined the war, with formal declarations against Japan and Nazi Germany. The 314-foot Wickes-class destroyer had orders to patrol the ...

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.

The SS City of Beneres, a British passenger steam vessel built in 1936 for the Liverpool-based Ellerman Line and sunk in 1940 by a German U-boat while crossing the Atlantic, carrying evacuees who ...