On October 15, 1914, a German sub captained by U-boat ace Otto Weddigen attacked the HMS Hawke, killing 524 crew members, ...
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.
UC-97 became probably the only German submarine sunk within the continental United States. One of five U-boats turned over to the U.S. Navy for post-war study, she toured the Great Lakes as part ...
However, in the mid-1980s the discovery — or, rather, re-discovery — of three German U-boats entombed in an abandoned U-boat ...
On the way, they pulled off one of the most impressive naval feats of the war: capturing the German U-boat U-505 completely intact — including its valuable Enigma machines and the codebooks ...
2,937 ships were sunk by German U-Boats during WW2 -- per the Sunken Ships of the Second World War -- and that statistic ...
More than 200 servicemen were killed when the U.S.S. Edsall was struck by Japanese dive bombers in March 1942. By Hank ...
On May 10th, 1945, all the German U-boats were told to surrender. The U249, which was the first German U-boat to arrive in UK waters, came into Weymouth Bay and surrendered. The commanding officer ...
Near the end of WWI Germany, was still putting new submarines into the Atlantic. A U-boat called the SM UC-97 was ...
In 2008, German U- boat U-455 was discovered off the coast of Italy. 400 feet down, the submarine stands almost vertically on the ocean floor. This documentary will reveal its history and the ...
Two days later, the German U-boat U-552 left the French port of St. Nazaire to prowl the North Atlantic on its sixth patrol. The US was not a belligerant in the war in Europe at the time ...
In 1942, the crew of U612, a German U-boat, embark on their maiden voyage. Meanwhile, a young woman finds herself caught between the Gestapo and the French Resistance. The U-612 prepares for its ...