PzKpfw IV Ausf. A, unit unknown; Poland September 1939 One of only 35 examples of this initial version to be built, this tank is finished...
The Battle of the St. Lawrence A Little-Known Episode in the Battle of the Atlantic by Fabrice Mosseray In the summer of 1942, German...
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For the first half of the war, the principal armament on most U-boats was the 8.8cm or 10.5cm naval gun, and/or the 2cm flak gun. As the war...
Twin 3.7cm flak guns were relatively unusual, the majority of boats carrying either twin or quadruple 2cm or single 3.7cm guns. This twin 3.7cm...
During the early part of World War II many merchant ships still travelled alone. Escorts were in short supply and air cover was restricted, so...
U-85 was a Type VII-B U-boat commanded by Oberleutnant zur See Eberhard Greger. The 85 had limited success on its three tours, and was out looking...
Early one morning a Hudson of the R.A.F. Coastal Command took off and headed out over the Atlantic. Visibility was poor, frequent rainstorms swept...
The Battle of the Atlantic, a nautical campaign which lasted the duration of the war, started after the German invasion of Poland with the...
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These picture panels come from he 5th U-boat Flotilia visitor's book and illustrate the histories of individual U-boats. The 5th U-Flotilla in...
Oberst Joachim Helbig Joachim Helbig was born on 10 September 1915 in the town of Borln. Like several other Luftwaffe aces, the early part of...
Oberst Werner Baumbach Werner Baumbach was born on 27 December 1916 in the town of Cloppenburg. Fascinated by flying from an early age, as a...
Fregattenkapitan Otto Kretschmer Otto Kretschmer was probably the greatest of the World War II U-boat aces. He was born in Heidau, Silesia, on...
Kapitanleutnant Engelbert Endrass Engelbert 'Bertl' Endrass was born in Bamberg on 2 March 1911. Another former officer in the Merchant Navy...
Kapitanleutnant Gunther Prien The first of Germany's great U-boat aces was born in Osterfeld on 16 January 1908. His naval career began when...
In the case of U-boat captains, a long wait could ensue between the notification of the award of the Knight's Cross and the completion of a long...
HMS Courageous, one of the navy's oldest aircraft carriers, was torpedoed by a U-boat west of here today. It is the navy's first serious loss of...
The Bunker "Konrad" was not far from the bunker "Kilian", in a harbor opposite the town centre of Kiel, Germany. In April 1943, the building...
The 2,473-ton Welsh collier "Sarastone" arrived in port from Lisbon at the beginning of January, 1941, following a battle with a V-boat, which...