On this site you will find all the German U-boats of both World Wars, their commanding officers and operations including all Allied ships attacked, technological information and much more. …

By May, 1945, Germany had built more than 1800 submarines, including midgets, with a total gross tonnage of approximately 1,000,000 tons. But they had not won the war for Hitler. During …

Are any U-boats left today and where are they? You can find them in museums in Germany, USA, Britain and Finland. 41 pages of techical info covering all the U-boat types, ranging from the …

This is a list of submarines of World War II, which began with the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 and ended with the surrender of Japan on 2 September 1945.

World War II ended for the 58 survivors aboard German submarine U-505 on June 4, 1944, about 150 miles from Rio de Oro, Western Sahara.

German U-Boats (Underwasserboot or Unterseeboot) or submarines were a deadly threat to the Allied Forces in the Atlantic during World War II. While the Treaty of Versailles and the 1918 …

Here we've created a compilation of all the 1154* U-boats that were commissioned into the Kriegsmarine before and during World War Two. Each boat has a complete history file, …

This category is for submarines designed, built, or operated by Germany during World War II (1939–1945). This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. The following 200 …

Feb 5, 2025 · Just before midnight on July 19, 1944, the German submarine U-861 fired a torpedo at the ship, per CNN’s Max Saltman. The weapon hit the stern, causing the vessel to sink and …

all are means of waging total war by attacking a state’s home front, rather than by directly engaging its armed forces in battle. This paper sheds light on this type of conflict by assessing …

3 days ago · Germany completed its first U-boat (the U-1) in 1905 and was the first nation to use a submarine during World War I. By comparison, the U.S. Navy commissioned its first sub (the …

In World War II, submarine warfare was split into two main areas – the Atlantic and the Pacific. The Mediterranean Sea was also a very active area for submarine operations. This was …

The German U-boats of WWII varied from relatively simple boats little changed from WWI to the highly advanced and ahead of its time Elektro boats of types XXI and XXIII plus many even …

Feb 4, 2025 · Wreckage of sunken Japanese WWII ship found 00:30. More than 80 years after a Brazilian warship was sunk by a German submarine during World War II, the vessel's location …

The Second Happy Time (German: Zweite glückliche Zeit; officially Operation Paukenschlag ("Operation Drumbeat"), and also known among German submarine commanders as the …

The biggest and most decisive convoy operations of the war. Kriegsmarine's biggest victories but also its worst losses. See all convoys hit by U-boats and also the entire convoy route system. …