The German Submarine branch of the Kriegsmarine was one of the most fear-inducing branches of the German military apparatus ...

Waynesboro native Carl Woodrow Schrader was a cook on the Atlantic Sun when it sank after being torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II.

In June 1944, the United States Navy did something it had not attempted since the War of 1812. American sailors boarded and captured a German submarine alive in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The ...

As World War II drew to a close, U.S. Navy intelligence suspected German U-boats equipped to launch V-1 rockets were preparing to hit New York City. The War Department dismissed the threat. The Navy ...