The submarine is perhaps the most effective ocean-going craft for defeating naval vessels, and it was one of the most feared and revered weapons of World War II. While several countries built and ...

Joseph Jennings dedicated much of his 100 years on the planet to public service. He served in the Navy in World War II – as a radioman on a PBY 5A Catalina seaplane that sank a German submarine off ...

A German submarine torpedoed the S.S. Pennsylvania Sun on July 15, 1942, destroying 107,500 barrels of U.S. Navy fuel oil. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Early on June 29, 1942, the 8,032-ton ...

Operation Regenbogen was launched at the end of World War II as a planned mass scuttling of all German submarines to avoid surrender. But U-977 escaped to Argentina and arrived in Mar del Plata on ...

"The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril," admitted Winston Churchill at the close ...

In the dark days of World War II, the secretive staff at a large building on Nebraska Avenue NW in Washington kept a scoreboard of its success. Each time a German U-boat was sunk by the U.S. Navy, ...

In July 1941, a British submarine sank an Italian submarine in the Mediterranean Sea. In November 2021, a team of divers found the wreck of the Italian sub in waters south of Mykonos. "The ...