The Gato-class submarine was the state of the art in American design at the start of World War II. Using the previous Tambor-class submarine as a...
[img] Operation "Neptune/Overlord" were the code names for the 6 June 1 944 D-Day Landings on the Normandy coast of German-occupied France....
IT was the longest and hardest won campaign of the Second World War. Now, more than 60 years after the end of bloody Battle of the Atlantic, the...
Seven months of phoney war were abruptly broken on 9 April 1940 in the Norwegian Sea. On HMS Glowworm, Lieutenant-Commander Gerard Roope (below),...
British Origins – World War I When the U-boats were at their worst in World War I, the British Admiralty approved and authorized the...
The campaign which opened on I February 1917 was fought with unparalleled ferocity. Three days later the United States broke off diplomatic...
One of the most enduring images of Britain at war is that of bombed cities and towns, the destruction and devastation caused by aerial...
By 1917, U.35 had become so famous that a special attempt was made to record one of her cruises in the Mediterranean by sending a photographer to...
Many nations have contributed to the development of the submarine but Germany seemed predestined to make more of its potential than any other...
Latest News Reports from 23rd August 1940 New York Backs R.A.F. ON August 9 and 12, the days following the great aerial battles in the...
This first-hand account of conditions in the German Navy was written by a young Dutchman who served some time on the "Scharnhorst" and "was given...
Thirteen seamen who, after their ship had been sunk by a U-boat, withstood six days of privation on a raft have added another page of dogged...
H M S Submarine Snapper is a little ship of 670 tons, carrying an armament of six torpedo tubes and one 3-in. gun, and a crew of 40, commanded by...
Such was the description given by the ship's crew of most of the first batch of German prisoners of war and civilian internees who reached Canada...
In the first week of her invasion of Norway, Germany lost 25 Merchant-Ships many of them transports similar to the one above, that was docked in...
One of Britains Giant Watch-Dogs That Keep The Convoys Safe. [IMG] In the convoying of merchant ships, the Coastal Command of the Royal Air...
On board the Graf Spee as prisoners were the captains of six British merchant ships, who were uncomfortably aware of the action although they saw...
Lord Chatfield was right when he expressed the opinion in the House of Lords that the Graf Spee would soon put out to sea again, for a short time....
By the morning of the 3rd September 1939 war was inevitable. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broadcast to the nation at 11.15 a.m. that morning...
A French electrician, who had his own reasons for volunteering to join the Organisation Todt employment, after having made two abortive attempts...