The Reuben James was the first U.S. Navy ship sunk by the German Navy in WWII. Within two months, the service would be fully engaged in the Battle of the Atlantic.

The WW2 German Navy (Kriegsmarine) employed seven main variants during the war, including the Type VIIA with 5 torpedo tubes and 11 torpedoes or 22 TMA mines, the VIIC with improved torpedo attack ...

Digging History WWII German Navy wreck with Nazi symbol discovered The cruiser Karlsruhe was sunk on April 9, 1940, during the invasion of Norway ...

Submarines were crucial to both the Allies and the Axis powers during World War II. The German Navy would build 1,156 U-boats ...

The agreement allowed Germany to build a navy equal to 35% of the total tonnage of the Royal Navy and permitted construction of large warships and submarines. A year after it was signed, the first ...

On June 4, 1944, the US Navy captured its first German submarine. Now it's displayed at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science and Industry.

After the policy forbidding German Jews from serving in the U.S. military was changed during World War II, Pins joined the Army and was going through basic training, believing he would be sent ...

The German Navy has boasted that it is the quietest submarine in operation today, and a total of six Type 212A U-boats were commissioned between 2004 and 2015.