Wikimedia Commons/U.S. Navy USS Silversides The USS Silversides began service on December 15, 1941, eight days after the ...

During World War II, U.S. Navy cruisers filled a vital niche between the powerful but slow battleships and the less powerful ...

Underwater imagery shows the sunken remains of the German submarine U-853 in Rhode Island waters. You’ve heard, of course, of the Battle of the Bulge and the Normandy Invasion.

Video of the Dublin fishing vessel Leukos sunk by a German submarine off Tory island in March 1940 with loss of 11 lives.

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 ...

The German U-boat U-853 was sunk off the coast of Point Judith, Rhode Island, in May 1945, marking the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may ...

The German sub U-166 was among a fleet of 23 sent to the Atlantic Ocean in the spring of 1942 on a mission called Operation Drumbeat, the Nazi code name for submarine attacks on Allied shipping ...

Under the command of Lt. Cmdr. Maurice Jester, the cutter Icarus sank a German submarine in less than an hour.

More than 80 years after a Brazilian warship was sunk by a German submarine during World War II, the vessel's location has finally been confirmed, Brazil's navy has revealed. The historic vessel ...

Key Points German U-boat strategies changed during World War II into "Wolf Packs," in which several submarines cooperated to ...