Unlike the Japanese carrier fleet, the Kriegsmarine envisioned using the Graf Zeppelin in a support capacity for the wider ...
In a top-secret effort led by the British Admiralty, a revolutionary anti-submarine weapon was developed—one that would forever change naval warfare in World War II. Instead of relying on traditional ...
The submarine was one of Nazi Germany’s Type XXI U-boats, which could stay underwater ... from where the British bomber pilots reported it. German forces in Denmark had surrendered the day ...
By MercoPress Staff - In 2022, global mainstream news outlets highlighted the detection of a presumed German U-boat in Argentine waters. The unregistered wreck, spanning 80 meters in length and 10 ...
World War I was raging off the British Isles when the German submarine UC-18 surfaced to attack easy prey on the chilly morning of9, 1917. Its target, the Lady Olive, was about eight miles off the ...
the second major Allied breakthrough in reading German U-boat communications. (For more on the breaking of the Enigma, see Decoding Nazi Secrets.) ...
The crew of the submarine U-1206 were forced to abandon the vessel after its high tech toilet malfunctioned; its wreckage ...
or U-boats, sunk, scuttled, captured, or otherwise lost to German forces during World War II. Here, naval historian Timothy Mulligan describes 25 of the most historically significant U-boats.
When the topic of German submarines is mentioned on Block Island, the exciting events surrounding U-853 in May 1945 come to ...
in terms of interservice rivalries—was impossible for the Nazi state. The 1935 Anglo-German Naval Agreement loosened the constraints imposed upon Germany’s naval development at the end of ...