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 nightmares of Allied cargo shipping, the German U-Boats reigned supreme in the turbulent seas during 1940-1942. Taking one of these U-Boats as an example, the U-505 submarine sunk an impressive 8 ...

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.

Almost 80 years have passed since the end of the Second World War, and there is still fascination about German U-boats that ...

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

Since 2000, at least 14 expedition crews have unsuccessfully tried to find the final resting place of the HMS Trooper, but the ill-fated World War II ... the submarine’s remains based on its ...

The USS New Jersey made waves when it was commissioned — the first submarine in the U.S. Navy's fleet designed specifically ...

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 ...

German submarine-hunting planes ... a multinational air unit based at RAF Cottesmore in Rutland between 1981 and 1999. Meanwhile, the US regularly deploys strategic bombers to the UK to work ...