December 27, 1940 - a ship flying Soviet colors approached Nauru. But it was a trap. Germany’s hidden raider, the Komet, opened fire, devastating the island’s vital phosphate operations. It was the ...

World War I was raging off the British Isles when the German ... of the Q-ships’ crews was “another St. George or Beowulf,” wrote Lake in Smoke and Mirrors. “Every man was a hero who ...

The German U-boat U-853 was sunk off the coast of Point Judith, Rhode Island, in May 1945, marking the last U.S. merchant ship sunk in WWII. Historian Tim Gray speculates that German U-boats may have ...

More than 80 years after a Brazilian warship was sunk by a German submarine during World War ... ship had mainly been used to transport soldiers and supplies along the coast, and according to ...

The story is true. The German sub officially was known as U-166. It was among a fleet of 23 sent to the Atlantic Ocean in the ...

When the Jeremiah O'Brien was ... 2,700 liberty ships that transported soldiers and materiel to the war in Europe. The crew of 56 was constantly under threat from swarms of German U-boats trying ...

Karl Taylor World War I was raging off the British Isles when the German ... the Q-ships’ crews was “another St. George or Beowulf,” wrote Lake in Smoke and Mirrors. “Every man was a ...