The German Submarine branch of the Kriegsmarine was one of the most fear-inducing branches of the German military apparatus during the Second World War. It wasn’t always that way though. As a matter ...

In the final weeks of the war, the Navy hunted down and sank five German submarines in the North Atlantic. They stopped what they believed was an imminent attack on the East Coast.

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

Late in WW2, Allied forces introduced an acoustic homing torpedo designed to track submarines by the sound of their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...