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 ...

Almost 80 years have passed since the end of the Second World War, and there is still fascination about German U-boats that ...

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

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.

He returned to Pigeon Falls after the war and never thought he'd go back to Europe. But just before the 80th anniversary of D ...

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 ...

Higgins manufactured more than 20,000 boats during his decades-long career. His landing craft were used in every major amphibious assault of World War II ... shallow water. As the US military ...

Antis the hero Alsation flew in over 30 World War II combat missions alongside his airman master and now his rare bravery ...

In 1917 Britain and her allies were losing hundreds of ships every month to German ... U-boat commander before he’d even fired his torpedoes. When the periscope broke through the surface of the ...

A steamer rammed the U.S. submarine S-51, which sank in 130 feet of water ... escorts. A German band welcomes a Type VIIC U-boat, the mainstay of the German World War II submarine fleet, returning ...