U-boat from which codebooks and valuable cryptographic materials were recovered before sinking, facilitating, in late 1942, the second major Allied breakthrough in reading German U-boat ...

The U249, which was the first German U-boat to arrive in UK waters, came into Weymouth Bay and surrendered. The commanding officer went on-board with his crew and took command. The first things ...

This is a u-boat officers dress dirk (dagger) from WW2 made by Eichorn with original silver and leather hanger. The German submarine caused havoc with alied shipping for the greater part of the ...

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 ...

Led by “eager and aggressive” young lieutenants, U-boat crews operated under the German tradition of Auftragstaktik, “which allowed for great flexibility in accomplishing a mission ...

The Treaty of Versailles blocked the German Navy from having submarines and limited the number of officers to 1,500. One of those officers was U-boat skipper Karl Dönitz. He was assigned as ...

The ship was transporting supplies and soldiers along the coast when it was torpedoed by German U-boat U-861 on the night of June 19, 1944. The wreck was first reported 14 years ago but was ...