The discovery of torpedo fragments disproved German claims and led to a major diplomatic crisis with the United States. The U-boat responsible, commanded by Oberleutnant Herbert Pustkuchen ...

They knew that at any moment, German U-boats could descend upon them. Disaster struck at 4:15 p.m. The German UB-64 launched a torpedo that hit the vessel's starboard side and caused an explosion.

Japan imported some 800 German technicians ... He was assigned as commanding officer of a torpedo boat—a submarine on the surface, if you will. He began developing submarine tactics for the ...

when a lone-wolf German U-boat arose from the murky depths of Casco Bay and fired one torpedo. Forty-nine men lost their lives, a great naval manhunt was launched and an enduring controversy ...

When German U-boat Commander Walther Schwieger ordered a torpedo strike on the Lusitania, he didn't know it would be the shot that eventually led the U.S. into WWI. But it wasn't a mistake ...

Based on its experience in World War I, German Adm ... North Carolina, as “Torpedo Junction.” During that time, U-boat captains became so confident that on Feb. 28, 1942, U-578 torpedoed ...

and a brief tale of surviving a German submarine attack on his transport ship on Christmas Eve 1944 about 5 miles from its destination, Cherbourg. “All he ever said was the boat was torpedoed ...

German U-boats sank 148 petroleum tankers and countless ... according to "New York at War," a book by Steven H. Jaffe. As the torpedo slammed into the Coimbra's hull, it "sent a blinding sheet ...

"The SS Salsette sank 45 minutes after the torpedo hit, taking the vast majority of Ambedkar's books and papers, including the first draft of his Columbia University doctoral dissertation ('The ...