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On June 4, 1944, the US Navy captured its first German submarine. Now it's displayed at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science ...

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In an era of hypersonic missiles, stealth fighters, and nuclear subs, it’s hard to picture sailors going toe-to-toe with the enemy on a ship’s deck. Yet during World War II, the crew of a brand-new ...

The post-war narrative of the German U-boat efforts follows several stages: the first “Happy Time,” followed by the second “Happy Time,” and then utter destruction by the Allies. In reality, the ...

An amateur researcher’s first book details the story of a German submarine that was secretly brought into Bermuda during the Second World War. The United States Navy captured the U-boat U505 off the ...

The U.S. military downed another small boat off the coast of Venezuela it claims was smuggling drugs into the U.S., President Donald Trump said Tuesday, marking at least the fifth strike in recent ...

German Navy Special Operations Forces Command counts rigid-hulled inflatable boats as part of its toolset. (Bundeswehr/Björn Wilke) The German parliament's (Bundestag's) budget committee approved the ...

Although they lost World War II, the Nazis were more technologically advanced than their Allied rivals in multiple ways. Berlin’s problem was scale—and trying to do too much with too few resources.

It was the ""Second Happy Time"" or more ominously the ""American Shooting Season""... At the beginning of 1942 during World War II, the German Navy ushered in a new phase of the Battle of the ...