I’ve long been intrigued at mentions of a sunken German U-boat explored by divers in Rhode Island waters. But I’d never known if that was a sign World War II naval battles happened close to ...

The interior of the submarine was meticulously ... marking the first time the German sailors saw the U-boat since the war. "Part of what we want to do is preserve the history of the U-505, the ...

German submarines sank 56 Allied ships in the region and damaged another 14, losing just one of their own in the process ...

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What you call them depends on where they're made. A U-boat is nothing more than the Anglicized term for a German submarine and isn't strikingly different from U.S. subs. The whole "boat ...

The German U-boat U-853 sank the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may have entered Narragansett Bay before the U.S. officially entered WWII.