It was the ""Second Happy Time"" or more ominously the ""American Shooting Season""... At the beginning of 1942 during World War II, the German Navy ushered in a new phase of the Battle of the ...

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Now they are in a race against time to learn the secrets hidden. U-boats stranded on the south coast of England after the surrender of Germany in the First World War are surrounded by onlookers on ...

February 1943. In the icy North Atlantic, German U-boats encircled Convoy ON-166, 63 ships hauling vital cargo from America to Britain. What should’ve been an easy slaughter turned into a nightmare.

In an era of hypersonic missiles, stealth fighters, and nuclear subs, it’s hard to picture sailors going toe-to-toe with the enemy on a ship’s deck. Yet during World War II, the crew of a brand-new ...

The post-war narrative of the German U-boat efforts follows several stages: the first “Happy Time,” followed by the second “Happy Time,” and then utter destruction by the Allies. In reality, the ...

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.