CHICAGO (WLS) -- World War II veteran Don Carter was there 70 years ago when the German U-boat on display at Chicago Museum of Science and Industry was captured. In 1944, German submarines, called ...

Original wartime U-boat hunters were military men trained to destroy German submarines. Today's hunters are divers and archaeologists trying to preserve them. From a government research vessel, ...

BOSTON – Divers have discovered a World War II-era German submarine nearly 70 years after it sank under withering U.S. attack in waters off Nantucket. The U-550 was found Monday by a privately funded ...

KIEL, GermanyKIEL, Germany — It is flat and it is huge, looking much like a white-and-blue space ship – and it is one skipper’s dream. German adventurer Raphael Domjan came a step closer Wednesday to ...

The wreck of a World War I German submarine has been discovered off the coast of Scotland by marine engineers surveying the route of an undersea power cable. Researchers said they think the wreck is ...

In World War II, the Germans conquered France in 1940 and turned it into a major support system for its war against the Allies. On a trip to France my son-in-law, Stephen Alan Bourque, professor ...

Around 100 German politicians and journalists crowded into a dinghy on Berlin's river Spree on Tuesday as part of an initiative by a German charity to raise awareness of the precarious conditions on ...

A German boat captain faces 20 years in jail in Italy for rescuing 1,000 migrants in the Mediterranean after being accused of colluding with smugglers. Pia Klemp, 35, could be tried and imprisoned for ...

The following images, provided by Tyne & Wear Archives, show the heart of a World War I German submarine that sank in 1918 after it was rammed by a torpedo boat destroyer. During WWII, Germany built 1 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Marine archaeologists have uncovered the wreck of a World War I German U-Boat off the coast of ...

“The Burning Shore: How Hitler’s U-Boats Brought World War II to America,” by Ed Offley. Basic Books, 288 pages, $27.99. ... “The Burning Shore: How Hitler’s U-Boats Brought World War II to America,” ...

NARRAGANSETT, R.I. — There’s a German U-boat about 7 miles off Rhode Island’s Block Island, in about 130 feet of water. Bill Palmer, chomping on an unlit cigar, will tell you it’s a time machine.