For the first half of the 20th Century, the German U-boat was the most feared warship at sea. Even Churchill admitted “[t]he only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U ...
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 ...
The German embassy has been informed. "This sort of submarine would have had a standard crew of 22 and one commander," said Mr Decaluwé. Although in relatively good condition, the submarine ...
A Guernsey-made documentary about a U-boat which sank ... of some of its crew to their families. Christian Lübcke, military historian and regional director of the German War Graves Commission ...
As in World War I, only one verified German submarine atrocity is on record. In March 1944, U-boat commander Heinz Eck, on his first combat mission, ordered his crew to kill all survivors of the ...
Near the end of WWI Germany, was still putting new submarines into the Atlantic. A U-boat called the SM UC-97 was ...
So wearing German uniforms in a public space, that's beyond thoughtless. That's repugnant," American Heritage Museum Trustee Gary Lewi told WBZ-TV. Lewi said the museum doesn't even allow costumes ...
A diary handed down through three generations has helped find the wreck of a German U-boat sunk by a secret Royal ... The ...
(WHDH) - A Hudson restaurant is apologizing to its customers after several World War II reenactors ate a meal inside while dressed as German soldiers. Wearing military uniforms, 350 reenactors ...
The boat had ... The U.S. Navy had one accident, two men killed. The German Navy, one accident with three men killed. Japan and Italy had each lost a submarine, each with a crew of 14.
The British crew would get a prize for sinking a submarine, so there was "a motive to make this up", he said. James Simpson's diary helped locate a German U-boat sunk by a Royal Navy Q-ship Mr ...