The German U-boat U-853 sank the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may have entered Narragansett Bay before the U.S. officially entered WWII.

Once the hunters of the Atlantic ocean, the German wolfpacks by 1944 had become the hunted. Allied task groups dubbed “Hunter-Killer[s]” methodically attacked, scuttled and destroyed German U-boats, ...

This imposing concrete structure in the German city of Bremen is 1400 feet long, 300 feet wide and 90 feet high, and looks every inch the secret Nazi facility that it is. Its purpose was to build and ...

Over eight decades ago, the US Navy made the historic capture of a Nazi U-boat during World War II. A treasure trove of vital German intelligence, the submarine's capture was top-secret. See inside ...

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 ...

Reality can be stranger than fiction, but sometimes the two intersect, as it did when Sharon Coldiron recently was reading James Lee Burke's 1994 novel, "Dixie City Jam." In it, the best-selling ...

I’ve long been intrigued at mentions of a sunken German U-boat explored by divers in Rhode Island waters. But I’d never known if that was a sign World War II naval battles happened close to America.

This undated photo, provided by the National WW II Museum in New Orleans, shows Oberleutnant zur See Hans-Gunther Kuhlmann, center, saluting commander of the German U-boat U-166 on his boat. The U-166 ...