To disrupt British supply lines in the early months of World War II, Hitler unleashed the feared U-boats to target Allied ...

Flickr/Grille1991 The U-Boat Attacks off Myrtle Beach German submarines hunted ships off South Carolina in early 1942, bringing World War II to American shores. From January to June, Nazi U-boats sank ...

A Japanese torpedo slammed into the USS New Orleans in 1942, tearing off nearly one-third of the ship and killing over 180 ...

Flickr/Photograph Curator U-505 Submarine The German submarine crew thought they were about to die. Their U-boat was sinking, ...

In the Caribbean Sea, the German submarine U-94 surfaced, wounded and desperate after a failed ambush. HMCS Oakville quickly closed in, unleashing devastating gunfire and depth charges to cripple the ...

The U-853, which lies 121 feet deep and 8 miles east of Block Island, was one of many German U-boats that brought a mostly faraway war to the coastal United States.

The German U-boat U-853 sank the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may have entered Narragansett Bay before the U.S. officially entered WWII ...

"What's also interesting is there are photos taken in 1919 or 1920 after World War I, when a German U-boat was captured," Haddox said. "They sailed it up the Mississippi River and kind of showed ...

Germany's U-505 submarine was the 1st warship captured by the US Navy in over a century and top secret during World War II. See photos of the inside.