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 ...

People like to make things more complicated than they need to be, and the words we choose to describe things are just one of ...

On 14 May 1945, almost a week after Britain and its allies celebrated victory in Europe, Hitler's defeated Atlantic U-boats berthed for the final time. The German submarines – the "U-boat peril" as ...

Rhode Island's summer tourism forecast for 2025 appears less optimistic than previous years due to economic concerns and other factors. A ban on "assault weapons" in Rhode Island was approved by the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When two of the Guadalcanal's F4F Wildcat aircraft spotted a U-505 off the coast of Cape Verde, Gallery knew he had his chance. Not only did he have boarding parties ready, he had a film crew standing ...

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.