To this day, there has only been one recorded instance of submarine-on-submarine warfare during WWII. The German Navy's destroyed U-864 is toxic to this day.

The German Submarine branch of the Kriegsmarine was one of the most fear-inducing branches of the German military apparatus during the Second World War. It wasn’t always that way though. As a matter ...

At the outbreak of war, the strength of the German Navy was not adequate for the needs of a major war, although they did achieve some remarkable results during the early years of the conflict; they ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. In 2023, Relic Entertainment's real-time strategy game, Company of Heroes 3, dived into rarely explored corners of World War 2 by letting players ...

Commissioned in August 1940, the Bismarck, at 45,000 tons, was the largest battleship in the Kriegsmarine (German navy) and contravened the Anglo-German Naval Treaty of 1935 which limited German ...

Designed in 1942 by the British Admiralty’s Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapons Development—nicknamed the “Wheezers and Dodgers”—which was the same group of engineering geniuses that designed the ...

But Hitler’s Germany did make progress towards building an aircraft carrier. This was the Graf Zeppelin—named for Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, best known for developing the eponymous airship. The ...

These soldiers are part of the Azov Assault Brigade, a unit that has garnered controversy for its alleged ties to neo-Nazi ideologies. A viral photo has surfaced on social media Friday depicting a ...

While German U-Boats are the most deadly component of the Third Reich's naval arsenal, it had a sizeable fleet of battleships as well. The United States even used a surrendered German battleship, the ...

From the Society for Nautical Research in partnership with Lloyd’s Register Foundation, I’m Sam Willis. And this is the Mariners Mirror podcast, the world’s number one podcast dedicated to all of ...