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 ...

Over eight decades ago, the US Navy made the historic capture of a Nazi U-boat during World War II. A treasure trove of vital German intelligence, the submarine's capture was top-secret. See inside ...

In an era of hypersonic missiles, stealth fighters, and nuclear subs, it’s hard to picture sailors going toe-to-toe with the enemy on a ship’s deck. Yet during World War II, the crew of a brand-new ...

U-505 was a near absolute failure as a killer, failing to sink a single ship for multiple combat tours in a row, suffering the only suicide of a commanding officer in the German undersea service until ...

Explorers say they've found the wreckage of a British warship that was sunk by a German U-boat during World War I. Some 524 people, including the ship's captain, perished when the HMS Hawke went down ...

Now they are in a race against time to learn the secrets hidden. U-boats stranded on the south coast of England after the surrender of Germany in the First World War are surrounded by onlookers on ...

People like to make things more complicated than they need to be, and the words we choose to describe things are just one of those many ways. For instance, consider that all bourbons are whiskey, but ...

Several American sailors climbed aboard the German submarine U-505, focused on saving it from sinking into the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. They did not know if the Nazi submariners who dove ...

HMS Hawke sank after an explosion caused by an enemy torpedo, with the loss of more than 500 of its crew. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

During a recent exploration off the coast of Shetland in Scotland, divers discovered a German U-boat from World War One. The term "U-boat" is derived from the German word "unterseeboot," meaning ...