U-869, the submarine profiled in the NOVA program "Hitler's Lost Sub," was just one of the more than 1,100 Unterseeboote, or U-boats, sunk, scuttled, captured, or otherwise lost to German forces ...
On October 15, 1914, a German sub captained by U-boat ace Otto Weddigen attacked the HMS Hawke, killing 524 crew members, ...
"There is so much to investigate here, but no-one ... "U-boat peril", as Winston Churchill described German submarine power, was a huge threat to Britain's survival during the early stages of ...
In many areas of Europe, it's hard to escape the visual reminders of World War II's devastating impact ... Mallmann-Showell's ...
When most people think of World War ... U-boats and ended any German hope of starving Britain into submission. They also allowed safe passage for American troops, enabling over one million US ...
Now a team of robots and divers is making the waters safer Paul Hockenos, Hakai Magazine A German U-boat sank the HMS "Hawke" off the coast of Scotland in the early days of the war Sonja Anderson ...
The initial two years of World War II saw a period of significant collaboration ... Such examples include the plan to ...
While the battles of World War One were fought overseas ... Imports of lamb and other meat were affected by U-boat attacks, so demand for Scottish lamb increased. By 1918, sheep prices were ...
Two days later, the German U-boat U-552 left the French ... the first US warship sunk by the enemy in World War II. "The news of the torpedoing of one of our destroyers off Iceland was the first ...
Despite boasting some of the best quotes in all of cinematic history, Casablanca was just one of many films churned out by the studio system in the early years of World War II. But something ...
Sure, any expert on war movies will admit to you that taste is subjective, but the defining World War II movies of the past eight decades all have one thing ... aboard a U-boat during World ...