During World War II, German submarines, or U-boats, wreaked havoc on Allied shipping. Using tactics and stealth and aided by intelligence reports on the merchant vessels, U-boats targeted these ...

In the first years of war, the Germans used them to cut off supply lines that were bringing weapons and equipment from the United States to United Kingdom. Simple History. U-Boats (World War II) ...

During World War II, U.S. Navy cruisers filled a vital niche between the powerful but slow battleships and the less powerful ...

The U.S. vessel was sunk by a German submarine during World War II. PROVIDED PHOTO BY ASSOCIATED PRESS/OCEAN EXPLORATION TRUST Ballard's photos show that the U-boat itself was broken in two by the ...

A sunken submarine in UAE: How this World War II U-boat got near Fujairah shores. The untold story of German submarine U-533 that was sunk off the coast of Fujairah 80 years ago this month.

According to the National World War II Museum, citing U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs statistics, of 16 million Americans who served in World Ward II, 167,284 were still alive, including about ...

The 36-foot boat carried U.S. troops during the invasion of Sicily and the Battle of Tarawa in the Pacific, officials said. How it ended up in Lake Shasta is a mystery.

Wreck of Irish fishing vessel sunk by U-boat in World War II finally found off Donegal coast John Kearney in his submersible which he dived to search for the wreckage in. Photo: Lishen Wei The Leukos.

"What's also interesting is there are photos taken in 1919 or 1920 after World War I, when a German U-boat was captured," Haddox said. "They sailed it up the Mississippi River and kind of showed ...