Conventional U-boat submarines had been the backbone of the Kriegsmarine during the early stages of World War 2. Still, as allies developed more prominent and more powerful fleets, the outdated German ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Too much emphasis on wonder weapons distracts from practical war efforts. On May 4, 1945 one of the most advanced submarines in the world crept up to a British Royal ...

Everything about the Type XXI was a mistake. On May 4, 1945 one of the most advanced submarines in the world crept up to a British Royal Navy cruiser. U-2511 was one of Germany’s new Type XXI-class ...

Earlier this month, searchers from the Sea War Museum Jutland in Denmark located a little-known but very important shipwreck from World War II in Skagerrak, the strait between Denmark and Norway. As ...

A missing German submarine said to have taken the defeated Nazi leadership to South America has been discovered after being lost at sea for nearly 73 years. The U-3523 was one of Hitler’s Type XXI ...

Researchers in Denmark claim to have found German U-boat U-3523, bringing an end to a mystery surrounding the Nazi surrender in Europe at the end of World War II. The submarine, missing for decades, ...