The German U-boat force maintained a fearsome reputation. But American submariners fought more effectively.

The British ocean liner was torpedoed by the Germans during World War I, killing over one thousand people and changing the ...

Thousands of vessels — 6,000 or more — lie at the bottom of the Great Lakes. Several hundred could lie beneath the waves in the part of Lake Michigan that falls under Illinois’ ...

In September 1914, a single German U-boat ventured into the North Sea. Lieutenant Otto Weddigen’s U-9 slipped past patrols ...

USS Buckley: A Destroyer Escort in the Battle of the Atlantic Commissioned in 1943, the USS Buckley was a destroyer escort, smaller than a destroyer, but built to protect Allied convoys from the ...

For over thirty years after World War II, German naval commanders believed their U-boats were defeated by Allied radar and[...] ...

The Trump administration has acknowledged 10 strikes on suspected drug-smuggling boats from South America, which have killed 43 people. By Charlie Savage and Eric Schmitt Reporting from Washington ...

The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the war—flying messages from submarine-hunting blimps during a time when radio ...

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 ...

An amateur researcher’s first book details the story of a German submarine that was secretly brought into Bermuda during the Second World War. The United States Navy captured the U-boat U505 off the ...

The Pentagon is moving some of its most advanced units and weapons closer to Venezuela as tensions run high between President Trump and Nicolás Maduro. WSJ’s Shelby Holliday maps the buildup in the ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump posted a video Tuesday afternoon showing the US military bombing another alleged Venezuelan drug boat, killing its six occupants. “Under my Standing Authorities as ...