Based on its experience in World War I, German Adm. Karl Doenitz’s new ... combat-experienced U-boat captains were dispatched to the Atlantic coast in Operation Paukenschlag, picking off U.S ...

Maurice Jester, the Coast Guard cutter Icarus, shown here, sank a German U-boat off the North ... combat-experienced U-boat captains were dispatched to the Atlantic coast in Operation Paukenschlag ...

Over the following year, an elaborate escape plan was devised to extract Kretschmer and three other German officials from ... digging and coordination, when U-536 arrived at Pointe de Maisonnette ...

It was mines like the one in Termote’s backyard that sent more of Germany’s WWI U-boats ... I knew it was a German UB II-class submarine,” remembers Termote. “After 30 U-boats, you just ...

In 2019, the U.S. Naval Institute asked several captains, admirals ... Run Deep," and "Submarine D-1." The German Navy's Unterseeboot, or U-boats, were some of the most legendary ships of World ...