Few naval vessels have developed as enduring of a legacy as German U-Boats, but what does that name actually mean?

This Badly Damaged German U-Boat Can't Dive for Cover It's November 1943 and a German U-boat has been brutally damaged in a fight with British warships and is limping its way to port. But the sub ...

Learn more. In April 1945, New England’s worst naval disaster of World War II took place just 5 miles off the coast of Cape Elizabeth, when a lone-wolf German U-boat arose from the murky depths ...

Under the command of Lt. Cmdr. Maurice Jester, the Coast Guard cutter Icarus, shown here, sank a German U-boat off the North Carolina coast during WWII. (U.S. Coast Guard) After the Japanese ...

By the summer of 1942 one Allied ship was going down every four hours, yet German U-boat losses remained frustratingly low. Play the game as a 'Senior Officer Escort'. In charge of the destroyers ...