The U-boats - an abbreviation of Unterseeboot meaning "undersea boat" - today remain entombed in a bunker designed to protect Germany 's precious assets from air attacks in the 1940s.

For most of World War 2, Germany had enjoyed having the largest and most advanced fleet of submarines at its disposal. The ...

Little-remembered U-boats were some of the deadliest weapons of World War II, sinking 400 ships along the East Coast of the United States.

In World War II, the Germans conquered France in 1940 and turned it into a major support system for its war against the Allies. On a trip to France my son-in-law, Stephen Alan Bourque, professor ...

Martin Beisheim was a rarity in the German U-boat Force during World War II. Serving aboard two U-boats from January 1940 until Germany’s surrender in May 1945, the young radioman accomplished ...

The surrender of the German U-boats is remembered by a Derry man who was there 80 years ago.

Before he was transferred to another boat, Kretschmer scored his first hit of the war in U-23 when he sailed into the Moray Firth and sank a 10,000 ton Danish tanker on 12 January 1940.

In June 1940 two German spies were dropped from u-boats on the Dingle peninsula. Walter Simon came ashore on the morning of June 13 near Dingle. He was seen landing and the alarm was raised.

U-boats had sunk nearly 300 ships carrying over 1 million tons of cargo between July and October 1940, a period known as the "First Happy Time" to German submariners.

Bombed in Plymouth and chased by U Boats - from July 1940 to December 1945 by csvdevon You are browsing in: Archive List > British Army Contributed by csvdevon People in story: Len Hicks Location ...

The hunt for Germany's largest warship proved that U-boats were the Nazis' best weapon The German battleship Bismarck after its completion but before it received its camouflage paint.