but later models participated in the conflict. U-boats served throughout WWI, targeting all manner of ships in the Atlantic, but it was during World War II that they made the most difference.

Soon after her officer training in Washington, she was recruited to a classified code-breaking team. She kept her work secret for decades, even from her family.

This was the first U-boat to be destroyed in WW2. All of the U39 crew were picked up, with only one of them having a slight injury. These men were at a later date sent to Canada to spend the rest ...

parts of Germany and the Netherlands in World War II, according to the museum. For years there has been speculation that the sub, which was one of Nazi Germany's most advanced U-boats at the time ...

Joining up at the start of the war, London-born Mr Barnes went on to serve for 23 years and said sinking a German U-boat was his biggest ... years since the end of WW2, Mr Barnes, who moved ...

New Brunswicker Howard Burchill was a young radio operator on the Liverpool Packet, when a German U-boat tore the ship apart with a single torpedo off Nova Scotia. The blast killed two men ...