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Early on June 29, 1942, the 8,032-ton British steam tanker HMS Empire Mica cruised east through calm waters toward Key West, Florida, where it planned to join a convoy bound for the United Kingdom.

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 ...

The surrender of the German U-boats is remembered by a Derry man who was there 80 years ago.

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

Under the command of Lt. Cmdr. Maurice Jester, the cutter Icarus sank a German submarine in less than an hour.

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.

The initial Fairlie Mortar failed, but from its shortcomings emerged the Hedgehog, a devastating new tool in the fight against Nazi U-boats and enemy submarines in the Pacific.

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.