Werner Hartenstein pulled drowning British troops from the Atlantic Ocean in September 1942. The German U-boat commander was flying Red Cross flags and even radioed for help in English. American ...
On May 7, 1915, the RMS Lusitania was nearing the Irish coast when a German U-boat fired a single torpedo. Within 18 minutes, the ship had sunk, leaving over a thousand dead and just over 700 ...
In October 1943, a German U-Boat landed armed personnel on the coast of Labrador. Their mission wasn’t sabotage — it was weather. Station Kurt was an automatic meteorological station designed to ...