Peter Leith (L) made the journey from Orkney to Shetland on U-Boat as a sea cadet A man from Orkney has been recalling how he took to sea in a German U ... surface of the water, one of Peter's ...

Tons of American-produced supplies and war matériel, as well as hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops, had only one way to get to Europe: in ships crossing the North Atlantic. German submarines, or ...

Salvaged and renamed Sailfish, the boat served to the end of World War II ... of the German submarine force, which lost an astonishing 630 men out of every 1,000 who served in the U-boat fleet.

In many areas of Europe, it's hard to escape the visual reminders of World War II's devastating impact ... re-discovery — of ...

A new trove of sunken Nazi ships has emerged in the River Danube, following a blistering summer drought that caused water ...

The fate of a WW2 bomber navigator ... fired from the deck of a German U-boat in the Bay of Biscay. Mr Fisher's son, Allan, 88, has spent decades trying to find out what happened to his father.

UK Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) team is heading to the South Atlantic island of St Helena to survey the wreck of a tanker sunk by a German U-boat in ... logs to find out as much about ...