The Brazilian Navy has confirmed that a wreck found in 2011 is that of a Brazilian auxiliary ship sunk in 1944 by a torpedo ...

Bert O'Leary, who just celebrated his 100th birthday, shares the terror and drudgery of life as airman aboard a Vickers ...

Feb. 3 is the 82nd anniversary of the sinking of the USAT Dorchester in the north Atlantic Ocean by a German U-boat.

A WORLD War Two warship mystery has finally been solved after the wreck snagged on a fisherman’s net. The Vital de Oliveira ...

A U-boat is nothing more than the Anglicized term for a German submarine and isn't strikingly different from U.S. subs. The ...

The Vital de Oliveira was sunk by the U-861 U-boat. The German submarine attacked when ... The U-861 survived the war, and was surrendered at Trondheim, Norway, before being scuttled off the ...

The Grueling Life of a WWII German U-Boat Crew Member Posted: January 16, 2025 | Last updated: January 16, 2025 The U-boat was not some near-mythical creature as it was almost portrayed by the ...

Brazil was the only South American country to send troops overseas in World War II. Throughout the Battle of the Atlantic, German U-boats patrolled Brazil’s coast, sinking some 34 vessels and ...

After more than 80 years hidden beneath the waves off Rio de Janeiro, the location of a Brazilian troop transport ship torpedoed and sunk by Nazi Germany was definitively confirmed by Brazil’s navy ...

West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during ...