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 ...

Life aboard a German U-boat in World War II was brutal, claustrophobic, and deadly. Follow Hans Fischer, a young mechanic ...

The Brazilian Navy has confirmed that a wreck found in 2011 is that of a Brazilian auxiliary ship sunk in 1944 by a torpedo from the German U-boat U-861. About 100 lives were lost when the Vital de ...

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 ...

The development of the automotive torpedo during World War I helped submarines to become more efficient by allowing them to attack from a safe distance. During World War I, Germany’s U-boats engaged ...

In World War I, writes Chicoan and naval historian David Bruhn, “German U-boats sank over 5,200 vessels and came dangerously close to choking off Britain’s critical supply of food in the spring of ...

Alexander Rose’s "Phantom Fleet: The Hunt for Nazi Submarine U-505 and World War II’s Most Daring Heist" is a thrilling, deeply researched account of one of the most audacious naval operations of ...

In the chaos of Atlantic convoy warfare, a German U-boat found itself cornered by a British destroyer at close range. With no ...

The U-505 submarine served 12 patrols and sank eight enemy boats before the US Navy captured it. The U-boat is now on display at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science and Industry. Visitors can walk ...

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.