The U-boat's surface armament included two antiaircraft guns and a 4.1-inch deck gun that could fire 15 rounds per minute. Life aboard the German submarine Built to endure longer voyages and dive ...
Bert O'Leary, who just celebrated his 100th birthday, shares the terror and drudgery of life as airman aboard a Vickers ...
By 1914 the submarine was not a new weapon, having first been used 150 years earlier. By the start of WW1 all the major ...
Its primary objective in the Atlantic: to spot and report German U-boats ... Smith stepped below deck and saw what Arnall was doing, he proceeded to take out his own gun, a ...
German submarines, known as U-boats, proved deadly during the conflict ... surfacing to use their deck guns. Recognizing this tendency, the British conceived the idea of developing “Q- ...
Since the close of World War II, more than 115 people have died from encounters with unexploded ordnance in the North Sea—but ...
In 1917 Britain and her allies were losing hundreds of ships every month to German U-boats. These deadly submarines ... WW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? documentWW1: Did the machine-gun ...
Warships are a critical component of any military, but some ships were designed to intimidate through their sheer size. Here ...
The Brazilian Navy has confirmed that a wreck found in 2011 is that of a Brazilian auxiliary ship sunk in 1944 by a torpedo ...
The Maschinengewehr 42, or more commonly, the MG 42 was Germany’s final development of their long-standing “universal machine ...
Over eight decades ago, the US Navy made the historic capture of a Nazi U-boat during World War II. A treasure trove of vital German intelligence, the submarine's capture was top-secret. See inside ...