In the 1990s, the German government decided ... of Elbe II and numerous other submarine pens and air raid shelters. The Second World War saw 1,162 U-boats built, of which 785 were destroyed ...

Immediately upon taking over France the Germans built giant bomb-proof submarine pens in French ports to protect their submarines. These ports were used to reload and repair German U-boats after ...

Two weeks later, I came back to my dad. He told me: "That thing you saw, you're not gonna believe this—it's not a freighter, it's a German U-boat." A sunken ship discovered by the team during ...

The story is true. The German sub officially was known as U-166. It was among a fleet of 23 sent to the Atlantic Ocean in the ...

On Masters of the Air Season 1 Episode 2, the 100th bombs German U-boat pens in Norway. With the help of Lt. Croxy’s navigating, a damaged B-17 struggled to get back to Britain.

On May 7, 1915, a German U-boat sank the British liner Lusitania off the coast of Ireland, killing nearly 1,200 people.

He claims to have found several indicators that the vessel may have been a German U-boat — including a distinctive plate and various structural features including the remains of a conning tower.

Several American sailors climbed aboard the German submarine U-505, focused on saving it from sinking into the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. They did not know if the Nazi submariners who dove ...

A hoard of Nazi artefacts including the only known copy of a memo announcing the death of Adolf Hitler have been uncovered from a sunken U-boat. The artefacts, which also feature Nazi cigarettes ...

What you call them depends on where they're made. A U-boat is nothing more than the Anglicized term for a German submarine and isn't strikingly different from U.S. subs. The whole "boat ...