The story is true. The German sub officially was known as U-166. It was among a fleet of 23 sent to the Atlantic Ocean in the ...

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Flight Lieutenant David Hornell was on a patrolling mission in his Catalina Canso A 9754 from the 162nd Squadron of the Royal ...

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“Old Hitler.” According to the Naples Daily News, the legends stem from World War II, when German U-boats began invading off ...

These eerie ghost ships have coasted through the world's oceans for thousands of miles, prompting many questions about their ...

In 1913, homemade bombs found under the bishop's throne in St ... were deemed by police to have been the work of suffragettes. In 1915, a German U-boat sank the British liner Lusitania off ...

transcribing conversations between German submarines and, crucially, writing down secret coded messages - now known as the Enigma code, to send to Bletchley Park. Pat found herself in Kent at ...

Once a feared weapon of Nazi Germany, U-505 became a turning point in the Battle of the Atlantic when it was captured by U.S. forces in 1944. Following a fierce battle and a failed scuttling attempt, ...

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