Submarines were crucial to both the Allies and the Axis powers during World War II. The German Navy would build 1,156 U-boats, of which 784 were lost from enemy action or other causes. U-boats hit no ...

During World War II, a small American destroyer escort quietly destroyed Japan’s final submarine scouting line in the Pacific. In May 1944, USS England hunted and eliminated multiple Japanese ...

Eight days into his first boat command, Karl-Adolf Schlitt made a toilet mistake that would get the whole crew captured or ...

In the final weeks of the war, the Navy hunted down and sank five German submarines in the North Atlantic. They stopped what ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The World War II submarine that was built in 1943 in Connecticut and completed six war patrols returned Oct. 15 to its resting ...

The crew included a man who was born and raised in Asheville. The discovery of the USS Grunion on Wednesday night culminates a five-year search led by the sons of its commander, Mannert Abele, and may ...

The USS Silversides Museum — a Muskegon mainstay known to Michigan youth as the place where they once spent the night on a World War II submarine — parted this week with one of its prized exhibits, an ...

As long as Jim Black is alive, the USS Scorpion SS-278 Base plans to continue honoring a fellow submarine sailor.

MANITOWOC – The USS Cobia will not be departing Thursday, Sept. 4, for its dry dock in Sturgeon Bay as initially planned. Wisconsin Maritime Museum revealed Sept. 3 the historic World War II submarine ...

It's been 75 years since the USS Grayback went missing with 80 sailors aboard. Now, an organization that searches for sunken World War II submarines has solved the mystery of where it went down. On ...

In the minds of many Americans today, it can be difficult to fully grasp the utter destruction of land and human life the world experienced during the Second World War. However, some of the machines ...