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

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

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 ...

It's been 75 years since the USS Grayback went missing with 80 sailors aboard. Now, an organization that searches for sunken World War II submarines has solved the mystery of where it went down. On ...

Buried beneath wartime secrecy were submarines whose capabilities surpassed anything the enemy expected. Designed with ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the war—flying messages from submarine-hunting blimps during a time when radio ...

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 Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science and Industry. Visitors can walk ...

The West Michigan submarine museum tried to preserve the ship, but it was too damaged. In recent months, the ship had been closed because it posed a safety concern to visitors. The USS Silversides ...