The Type seven and Type nine were the striking force of the Kriegsmarine during the Battle of the Atlantic - a German attempt to cut off the British Isles and force the Allies to surrender. In the ...

In a top-secret effort led by the British Admiralty, a revolutionary anti-submarine weapon was developed—one that would ...

Divers recently discovered the wreck of a German submarine and ... that could be fatal to a U-boat, stopping her from submerging anymore.” During World War I, more than 200 Q-ships—and perhaps ...

The ship was transporting supplies and soldiers along the coast when it was torpedoed by German U-boat U-861 on the ... to send troops to fight in World War II on behalf of the Allies, which ...

In that same vein, all U-boats are ... the feared German sub. Germany completed its first U-boat (the U-1) in 1905 and was the first nation to use a submarine during World War I.

The opening months of World War II had a number of important impacts on California’s history. Besides becoming the initial western front in the early days ...

In a new book Presidents At War, author Steven M. Gillon takes a look at how World War II impacted a generation of presidents ...

The Nazis hanged 13 young adults without trial in Cologne in 1944, among them Edelweiss Pirates, in a place that is marked by ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Latvia's foreign minister warns that Russian President Vladimir Putin will try to achieve in peace ...

Charles Benning, a Black man from Yellow Springs, Ohio, dropped out of high school to join the army during WWII. He later ...

His boyhood dream to be an adventurous pilot was fulfilled thanks to World War II. But, as a civilian ... took him aboard a 62,000-pound German flying boat that had touched down in the waters ...

He has already declared victory. ‘The world out there is not waiting for us, nor is it waiting for lengthy coalition talks and negotiations’, he told supporters in Berlin. ‘We must now ...