Every day, Wehrmacht commanders in the field sent reports back to base. Their dispatches included details as mundane as the weather - and as...
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...
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...
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...
Operation Paukenschlag, a German U-boat operation against Allied shipping along the East Coast of the United States and Canada in early 1942, is...
U-534 was sunk in the last significant engagement of the Battle of the Atlantic even though the captain (a Nazi party member) new the war was lost...
17th Oct 1941: German U-boat in action(Commander Endrass) XNP4ca2mMao [Hey Jim, is there a way to full size these?]
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...
[IMG] The following text is from another old aircraft book I have acquired: Britain's Air Power by R.A. Saville-Sneath, published in 1942. I...
Here a mine, complete with its sinking and anchoring apparatus is being dropped over the stern of a mine layer by the elaborate apparatus...