U-boats

To acquire their targets, U-boats needed to know the speed and direction of their prey, Covert said.

Military camouflage evolved from collaboration of art, science 2011

From March to December 1917, Covert said, German U-boats sank 925 British ships.

Military camouflage evolved from collaboration of art, science 2011

During World War II, the Marstallers prosper by running German and English blockades, but dozens drown when their ships are sunk by U-boats or blown up by mines.

Book review: Carsten Jensen's 'We, the Drowned' 2011

Pan American Airways loaned employees at its hubs throughout Africa; one sent reports, code-named “Cigar,” on German U-boats prowling off the Ivory Coast.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

The possibility is one with more than a passing interest to me, since I live on the East Coast, and German U-boats were believed to have patrolled the waters of the Atlantic until V-E Day.

Nazi Muff-Diving: It Could've Happened Here Con Chapman 2011

Pan American Airways loaned employees at its hubs throughout Africa; one sent reports, code-named “Cigar,” on German U-boats prowling off the Ivory Coast.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

G-class submarines were specifically intended to fight German U-boats in the North Sea.

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

The country built close to 2,000 cargo ships in 1943, around 13 times the number lost to U-boats in that year.

When We Were the Underdog Ronald Spector 2011

He established a top-secret defense laboratory at MIT and personally bankrolled pioneering research into new, high-powered radar detection systems that helped defeat the German Air Force and U-boats.

Tuxedo Park by Jennet Conant: Book summary 2010

They look east over Eriboll, a vast sea loch where the last German U-boats surrendered at the end of the war, towards Ben Hope, the most northerly Munro.

The Highlands' coolest – and most remote – cottages 2011