The Battle of the Atlantic, the prolonged and relentless struggle that for six years tilted the fate of the global conflict ...

The potency of the US Navy’s air power increased at a bewildering rate during the second world war. From hair-raising early ...

During World War I, U-boats were one of Germany’s most effective weapons. They snuck up underwater on British ships and launched torpedoes at them. Throughout the war, the U-boats sank more than 5,700 ...

There are growing doubts that Germany will tighten its laws this year to make it easier to prosecute small-boat smugglers, the BBC has learned. Facilitating people-smuggling is not technically illegal ...

Officials say intercepted communications are the core of the intelligence collected on the boats. By Julian E. Barnes Reporting from Washington The Trump administration claims that the boats it has ...

The post-war narrative of the German U-boat efforts follows several stages: the first “Happy Time,” followed by the second “Happy Time,” and then utter destruction by the Allies. In reality, the ...

The U.S. military downed another small boat off the coast of Venezuela it claims was smuggling drugs into the U.S., President Donald Trump said Tuesday, marking at least the fifth strike in recent ...

A detailed 3D scan has unveiled new insights into a WWII Nazi submarine lost in the Baltic Sea, shedding light on the wreckage of the German U-670, a Type VIIC U-boat that sank during a training ...

Alexander Rose’s "Phantom Fleet: The Hunt for Nazi Submarine U-505 and World War II’s Most Daring Heist" is a thrilling, deeply researched account of one of the most audacious naval operations of ...

German startup Enerkii has launched an energy-as-a-service model that aims to cut power bills in half for industrial customers — and decarbonise them in the process. The model uses an in-house ...

The German U-boat U-853 sank the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may have entered Narragansett Bay before the U.S. officially entered WWII.