the U-505 was one of the German navy's Type IX-class submarines, a long-range attack boat developed with longer dive times and agility compared to its predecessors. Given the Kriegsmarine's ...

The U-boat was not some near-mythical creature as it was almost portrayed by the Allied media, nor even was it a drone built ...

or U boats as we commonly refer to them, to attack shipping. Now, what's really interesting is in 1914, when the war just begins, the German U boats still adhere to what are called prize rules.

On June 4 1944 Captain Daniel Gallery and his men of the US Naval Task Force 223 did the nearly impossible they captured a German Uboat It was the first enemy vesselofwar captured in battle on the ...

Exactly 83 years ago, Nazi Germany launched "Operation Drumbeat," the devastating U-boat offensive in the mid-Atlantic, right here off the shores of Virginia and North Carolina. It was January 13 ...