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 ... to Shetland on a submarine.

The fate of a WW2 bomber navigator ... evidence in a German submarine captain's log book that the bomber was hit by anti-aircraft guns fired from the deck of a German U-boat in the Bay of Biscay.

From as early as the end of 1939, the German High Command had plans to build submarine bunkers ... for the Eble II-based ...

lurking German submarines. 2,937 ships were sunk by German U-Boats during WW2 -- per the Sunken Ships of the Second World War ...

The German U-boat casualty rate was even higher at 75 percent. Point being submarines were uniquely dangerous. But a lot has changed since World War II. Submarines aren’t used as rampantly as ...