War is brutal, exhausting, and, more often than not, meaningless. That's one key message that Wolfgang Petersen’s 1981 World ...

Under the command of Lt. Cmdr. Maurice Jester, the cutter Icarus sank a German submarine in less than an hour.

The first official Squid kill was scored by the frigate HMS Loch Killin (Pennant. No. K391) (poetically apropos moniker, eh?) ...

The Coronado Island Film Festival’s 2025 Student Classic Film Series presents Alfred Hitchcock’s Lifeboat on Sunday, March 30th, 2025, from 1:00 to 3:45 p.m. in the Winn Room at Coronado ...

The Grueling Life of a WWII German U-Boat Crew Member Posted: March 25, 2025 | Last updated: March 25, 2025 The U-boat was not some near-mythical creature as it was almost portrayed by the Allied ...

Eight decades after American soldiers sailed across the Rhine under gunfire to break through German defenses, U.S. soldiers gathered ... boarded an amphibious boat from the 1940s named “Tugboat ...

The latest study finds that a separate “horizon effect” played a much bigger role in saving ships from German U-boats. The horizon ... Woodrow Wilson & WWI: The American Experience - Peace ...

The now-iconic geometric designs were intended to throw off the visual perception of German U-boats crews and prevent them from accurately targeting ships with torpedoes. Conventional wisdom ...

Eugene Henley Jr. — known as “Big U” in the entertainment world — was one of 18 members of the Rollin’ 60s Neighborhood Crips street gang charged in a sprawling federal racketeering ...

Unlike traditional camouflage, which helps objects blend into their surroundings, dazzle camouflage used stark geometric patterns to try to confuse German U-boat captains’ perception of a ship ...

The Foreign Office stressed that the new advisory does not constitute a travel warning. It comes after US immigration authorities detained multiple German nationals upon arrival. https://p.dw.com ...