Eight days into his first boat command, Karl-Adolf Schlitt made a toilet mistake that would get the whole crew captured or ...

The crew included a man who was born and raised in Asheville. The discovery of the USS Grunion on Wednesday night culminates a five-year search led by the sons of its commander, Mannert Abele, and may ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U-505 submarine served 12 patrols and sank eight enemy boats before the US Navy captured it. The U-boat is now on display at ...

In June 1944, the United States Navy did something it had not attempted since the War of 1812. American sailors boarded and ...

USS Tang, commanded by Richard O’Kane, was the most successful American submarine of World War II, playing a pivotal role in crippling Japan’s war effort beneath the Pacific. Through aggressive night ...

In the final weeks of the war, the Navy hunted down and sank five German submarines in the North Atlantic. They stopped what ...

The USS Silversides Museum — a Muskegon mainstay known to Michigan youth as the place where they once spent the night on a World War II submarine — parted this week with one of its prized exhibits, an ...

In the minds of many Americans today, it can be difficult to fully grasp the utter destruction of land and human life the world experienced during the Second World War. However, some of the machines ...

On February 27 1942, an Allied force consisting of two heavy cruisers, three light cruisers, and nine destroyers faced off against the Imperial Japanese Navy in what's now known as the Battle of the ...

MANITOWOC (WLUK) -- A special craft beer is on sale to raise money for the preservation of a historic World War II submarine. The Wisconsin Maritime Museum announced Friday the release of a ...

Binoculars, plates emblazoned with swastikas among finds. Nov. 23, 2013— -- Researchers have apparently discovered the remains of a World War II-era German U-boat and the skeletons of its crew ...