Few naval vessels have developed as enduring of a legacy as German U-Boats, but what does that name actually mean?

and looks every inch the secret Nazi facility that it is. Its purpose was to build and test U-Boats. A Final Takeoff The Art of Sausage Making Smithsonian Second Opinion: Forging the Future Follow ...

Now, what's really interesting is in 1914, when the war just begins, the German U boats still adhere to what are called prize rules. [00:02:50] Michael Muir: so naval warfare, operates under ...

Hitler’s navy, the German Kriegsmarine ... Great battleships such as the mighty Bismarck and Germany’s fearsome U-Boat fleet were exemplars of Hitler’s maritime strategy to break Great ...

It's November 1943 and a German U-boat has been brutally damaged in a fight with British warships and is limping its way to port. But the sub's onboard batteries are impaired - which means it can ...

or U-boats, sunk, scuttled, captured, or otherwise lost to German forces during World War II. Here, naval historian Timothy Mulligan describes 25 of the most historically significant U-boats.

Credit: Public domain Peron's interest in German atomic technology is well-known and one U-Boat (U-234) captured by the allies while bound for Japan in May 1945, was found to be carrying 1,200 ...

The now-iconic geometric designs were intended to throw off the visual perception of German U-boats crews and prevent them from accurately targeting ships with torpedoes. Conventional wisdom ...

Gibbs is picked up by the Nazi U-boat. He manages to convince the German sailors that he's the spy, and in this guise he tries to rescue a group of captured Allied scientists.