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 ...

To this day, there has only been one recorded instance of submarine-on-submarine warfare during WWII. The German Navy's destroyed U-864 is toxic to this day.

Summary: The Treaty of Versailles imposed severe restrictions on the German navy, leading to the innovative design of pocket battleships to circumvent these limitations. These ships, though effective ...

Schmalenbach, Paul. German Raiders: The Story of the German Navy's Auxiliary Cruisers, 1895-1945. 1980. Symonds, Craig L. World War II at Sea: A Global History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018 ...

The boarding party that captured U-505 on June 4, 1944. (Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago) Once the hunters of the Atlantic ocean, the German wolfpacks by 1944 had become the hunted. Allied ...

There are two things you need to know about the pictures on a recent Montana National Guard recruiting poster: The first is that the soldier in the center is Command Sgt. Maj. Lawrence DeBoo, the CSM ...