The U-boat was not some near-mythical creature as it was almost portrayed by the Allied media, nor even was it a drone built ...

The German submarine U-977, a Type VIIC U-boat, became the center of one of World War II’s most intriguing post-war mysteries.After Germany's surrender in May 1945, U-977 set off on a secretive 66-day ...

Flickr/Photograph Curator U-505 Submarine The German submarine crew thought they were about to die. Their U-boat was sinking, ...

For centuries, people in other countries saw the United States as place of welcome and opportunity. Now, President Donald Trump’s drive for mass deportations of migrants is riling the streets of Los ...

A German U-boat brought WWII to RI's doorstep. Now it lies on the ocean floor Underwater imagery shows the sunken remains of the German submarine U-853 in Rhode Island waters.

The U-853, which lies 121 feet deep and 8 miles east of Block Island, was one of many German U-boats that brought a mostly faraway war to the coastal United States.

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.

U-boats have been around since 1906, when the U-1 was first commissioned by the Imperial German Navy. By the time World War I crept around, the U-1 was already obsolete, but later models ...

In April 1945, New England’s worst naval disaster of World War II took place just 5 miles off the coast of Cape Elizabeth, when a lone-wolf German U-boat arose from the murky depths of Casco Bay ...

Under the command of Lt. Cmdr. Maurice Jester, the Coast Guard cutter Icarus, shown here, sank a German U-boat off the North Carolina coast during WWII. (U.S. Coast Guard) After the Japanese ...

Germany, on the other hand, had a staggering 1,162 U-boats in operation. In fact, Germany had more U-boats destroyed (785) than the U.S. and Japan combined.