In response to a Houthi pledge to cease attacks on non-Israeli-linked Red Sea shipping in the wake of the Gaza War ceasefire, ...
The first RAF attack on an enemy U-boat was made by an Anson of No 500 Sqn near the North Hinder Light Vessel. The first U-boat was sunk on March 11, 1940 by Bomber Command in the Schillig Roads by a ...
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 ...
"On 21 October 1918 Reinhard Scheer, admiral of the German High Seas Fleet, ordered that all U-boat attacks should cease while negotiations were ongoing, but by then vital weeks had been lost ...
Just two weeks prior, another U-boat had successfully sunk HMS Royal Oak anchored at Scapa Flow in Orkney, killing over 800 in the process. The audacious attack had made a celebrity of its commander, ...
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 ...
During the Arctic convoys, more than 3,000 Allied seamen lost their lives to the freezing conditions and attacks by U-boats or aircraft. There were 78 convoys, starting in August 1941, after ...
One such video is the New Zealand-produced WW2 U-Boat Attack on Gisborne & Napier; the work of Paul Gilbert of Interesting FiNgZ5. In 2020 ABC produced a podcast S5E10 – The Patrol of U-862 to ...
After the fall of France in 1940, Dönitz’s trio of Kriegsmarine U-Boat aces embark on a race to send British merchant ships to the bottom of the ocean, converging on merchant convoys in co-ordinated ...