Dan Barnett teaches philosophy at Butte College. Send review requests to [email protected]. Columns archived at ...
February 1943. In the icy North Atlantic, German U-boats encircled Convoy ON-166, 63 ships hauling vital cargo from America ...
In September 1914, a single German U-boat ventured into the North Sea. Lieutenant Otto Weddigen’s U-9 slipped past patrols ...
The post-war narrative of the German U-boat efforts follows several stages: the first “Happy Time,” followed by the second “Happy Time,” and then utter destruction by the Allies. In reality, the ...
USS Buckley: A Destroyer Escort in the Battle of the Atlantic Commissioned in 1943, the USS Buckley was a destroyer escort, smaller than a destroyer, but built to protect Allied convoys from the ...
For over thirty years after World War II, German naval commanders believed their U-boats were defeated by Allied radar and[...] ...
An amateur researcher’s first book details the story of a German submarine that was secretly brought into Bermuda during the Second World War. The United States Navy captured the U-boat U505 off the ...
Shortly after helping his friend lay a wreath during the Rideau Park school service, fellow Calgary Highlander Griffiths was reminded of the grinding conflict in Ukraine, being waged over territory ...