The USS New Jersey made waves when it was commissioned — the first submarine in the U.S. Navy's fleet designed specifically ...
UC-97 became probably the only German submarine sunk within the continental United States. One of five U-boats turned over to the U.S. Navy for post-war study, she toured the Great Lakes as part ...
Midget submarines have been employed by other military powers throughout history, but the U.S. only had one briefly alongside ...
U-869, the submarine profiled in the NOVA program "Hitler's Lost Sub," was just one of the more than 1,100 Unterseeboote, or U-boats, sunk, scuttled, captured, or otherwise lost to German forces ...
These Zeiss binoculars were acquired by the current owner’s father, who was a submarine commanding officer during World War II. On May 10th, 1945, all the German U-boats were told to surrender.
This is when he was offered the opportunity to travel from Orkney to Shetland on a submarine. The Orcadian newspaper, dated 23 August 1945, reported that 3,500 people visited the U-boat and ...
a seaman on the U-boat, the UC-18, when it was torpedoed near Guernsey. Seaman Hans Arthur Kuffner, 26, was one of the oldest members of the submarine's crew. His great grand nephew, Andreas ...
In order to meet its commitment to Australia, as well as recover from its own submarine production shortfall, the U.S. must deliver an average of 2.33 boats a year. Only by doing so can it reach ...
The Thresher, an advanced nuclear-powered submarine ... In the U.S. Navy, submariners had a shocking 20 percent casualty rate. The German U-boat casualty rate was even higher at 75 percent.
Deep-sea diving experts working for the British Royal Navy recently helped submarine historians solve a century-old U-boat mystery, drawing on their past military experience and teamwork to do so.
The Navy developed SAWS to take workforce money that was frozen in other submarine contracts and use it to pay for the new boats and help make up the cost increase for planned multi-years for 10 ...