Just two weeks prior, another U-boat had successfully sunk HMS Royal Oak anchored at Scapa Flow in Orkney, killing over 800 in the process. The audacious attack had made a celebrity of its commander, ...
By 1914 the submarine was not a new weapon, having first been used 150 years earlier. By the start of WW1 all the major ...
The team's research involved going back to data from the time such as the U-boat commander's day journal which gave an indication of where it had been when it fired the torpedo. They also looked ...
The U-boat's surface armament included two antiaircraft ... Royal E. Ingersoll, then-Commander in Chief of the US Atlantic Fleet, said in the presidential unit citation awarded to the task group.
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spread out in a long line of U-Boats, radios the rest of the pack to converge on a convoy. Commander Gilbert Roberts leads board game-style wargaming exercises at Portsmouth. He suggests to Royal Navy ...
The broadcast involves a discussion between Dr David Stevens, former Australian naval officer and author of U-boat Far From Home, and Captain Dr Jörg Hillmann, Federal German Navy and Commander of the ...