Joseph Jennings dedicated much of his 100 years on the planet to public service. He served in the Navy in World War II – as a radioman on a PBY 5A Catalina seaplane that sank a German submarine off ...

The German Submarine branch of the Kriegsmarine was one of the most fear-inducing branches of the German military apparatus ...

World War II proved that control of the oceans could determine the outcome of a global conflict.

The tanker Dixie Arrow was among the ships targeted by German U-boats off North Carolina in WWII. It was hit by a U-boat ...

When the German submarine U-505 was captured by US forces in 1944, the mission was top secret. Now, eight decades later, the vessel — the only intact German submarine that was captured by US forces ...

In the early morning hours of July 25, 1943, a German submarine fired on the old Ethyl-Dow Chemical Plant in Kure Beach. Or maybe it didn't.

Accidents involving toilets typically only involve personal embarrassment, and rarely are they the cause behind the sinking of a specialized hunter-killer submarine. That's precisely what happened, ...

The U-505 submarine served 12 patrols and sank eight enemy boats before the US Navy captured it in 1944. The U-boat is now on display at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science and Industry. Visitors can ...