In the winter of 1944, four German paratroopers and a Kriegsmarine sailor broke free from a POW camp in the French port of ...

Flickr/Photograph Curator U-505 Submarine The German submarine crew thought they were about to die. Their U-boat was sinking, ...

The German government is still in talks with Thyssenkrupp over a spin-off of its naval ship building division TKMS, officials ...

Allied intelligence confirmed that Nazi Germany was developing “vengeance” weapons, including the V-2 long-range rocket, at Peenemünde on the Baltic Sea.

Germany has ordered the Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KDA) Joint Strike Missile (JSM) to equip its fleet of Lockheed Martin ...

First conceived by Messerschmitt as a carrier-borne fighter, the Me 155 morphed into a high-speed attack plane and later a ...

The German sub U-166 was among a fleet of 23 sent to the Atlantic Ocean in the spring of 1942 on a mission called Operation Drumbeat, the Nazi code name for submarine attacks on Allied shipping ...

Under the command of Lt. Cmdr. Maurice Jester, the Coast Guard cutter Icarus, shown here, sank a German U-boat off the North Carolina coast during WWII. (U.S. Coast Guard) After the Japanese ...

Unlike the Japanese carrier fleet, Germany’s wartime ally, the Kriegsmarine envisioned using the Graf Zeppelin in a support capacity for the wider fleet. Indeed, Graf Zeppelin ’s mission was a ...

The German armed forces as a whole, previously known as the Reichswehr now became the Wehrmacht. This was the Heer - Army, the Kriegsmarine - Navy and the Luftwaffe - Air force.

While many focus on the ground invasion when it comes to Germany’s offensive against Poland in September 1939, it’s important to take note of what was happening both on the water and in the air. The ...

As such, a claim that a submarine – also known as a U-Boat – of the German Kriegsmarine was sunk in a sneak attack in waters off Sungai Petani might seem ludicrous.