Almost 80 years have passed since the end of the Second World War, and there is still fascination about German U-boats that ...

For the first half of the 20th Century, the German U-boat was the most feared warship at sea. Even Churchill admitted “[t]he only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U ...

From as early as the end of 1939, the German High Command had plans to ... sloping roof were easily recognizable as Type XX1 ...

UC-97 became probably the only German submarine sunk within the continental United States. One of five U-boats turned over to the U.S. Navy for post-war study, she toured the Great Lakes as part ...

Peter Leith (L) made the journey from Orkney to Shetland on U-Boat as a sea cadet A man from Orkney has been recalling how he took to sea in a German U ... "We had seen photos of submarines ...

On May 10th, 1945, all the German U-boats were told to surrender. The U249, which was the first German U-boat to arrive in UK waters, came into Weymouth Bay and surrendered. The commanding officer ...

Despite evasive maneuvers, the German U-boat was struck and sank with all 73 crew members aboard, ending its mission. Decades later, the wreck was found, with toxic mercury leaking into the ocean.

A Guernsey-made documentary about a U-boat which sank during World War One ... Christian Lübcke, military historian and regional director of the German War Graves Commission, worked with the ...

Submarines were among the most dangerous military occupations during World War II, with the U.S. Navy losing 52 submarines ...

In 1917 Britain and her allies were losing hundreds of ships every month to German U-boats. These deadly submarines ... lost today in the black and white images we have of World War One.

I served in the United States Air Force Security Service for five years, from 1955. I enlisted right after high school ...

Christian Lübcke, military historian and regional director of the German ... photos of his relative who was known in the family as "Hanni". Mr Lübcke said Hans, who worked as a stoker on the U ...