Eight days into his first boat command, Karl-Adolf Schlitt made a toilet mistake that would get the whole crew captured or killed.
In the final weeks of the war, the Navy hunted down and sank five German submarines in the North Atlantic. They stopped what ...
In September 1914, a single German U-boat ventured into the North Sea. Lieutenant Otto Weddigen’s U-9 slipped past patrols ...
In an era of hypersonic missiles, stealth fighters, and nuclear subs, it’s hard to picture sailors going toe-to-toe with the enemy on a ship’s deck. Yet during World War II, the crew of a brand-new ...
Oscar-winner is almost seven decades old, but fans have hailed its depiction of WWII navy warfare as 'an exemplary ...