However, in the mid-1980s the discovery — or, rather, re-discovery — of three German U-boats entombed in an abandoned ... bar ...

That was more submarines than the entire German U-boat fleet at the beginning of World ... and five times the underwater endurance of the small pre-war Type II. However, combat effectiveness ...

The "U-boat peril", as Winston Churchill described German submarine power ... part of the island to the Germans and they had built a small airstrip there." Winter built an airstrip in the barren ...

That night, the crew heard rumors a German U-boat was in the area ... Three days later, the Maheno and its small crew were found stranded on the beach of Fraser Island, off the coast of Queensland ...

A suspected German spy identified a small hamlet in the ... where he scoped out the potential secret U-Boat submarine base. Upon returning to Germany, he broadcast Nazi propaganda in Irish from ...

As Soviet forces advanced in Eastern Europe in 1944, Nazi troops began deliberately sinking their ships in the Danube River. For much of the past 80 years, the scuttled German vessels—including ...

In 1917 Britain and her allies were losing hundreds of ships every month to German U-boats. These deadly submarines ... One of the camouflaged vessels was the small warship HMS M33, here at ...

These are the best World War II movies of the past eight decades, according to a Military.com survey of U.S. service members ...

The men were given a small room and lab equipment ... team solved the depth charge problem and successful attacks on German U-boats increased by a factor of five. Shockley's main weapon was ...

Outer Banks Voice The front lines of WWII were on the doorstep of the Outer Banks in 1942. In the first six months of that year, more than 360 Allied ships trying to cross the ...

BRITAIN’S deal with France to intercept small boats is being reviewed ... the numbers that we’re seeing — record numbers.” German migration commissioner Joachim Stamp has proposed sending ...

Across the road from the ruins, five orange-coloured boats lie in front of a two-storey, weather-worn building, with a sign that reads: “Hondeklip Bay Small Vessel Safety Monitoring Center ...