Falklands-based sailors tidied up the monument to crews of Type 21 frigates ahead of next year’s 40th anniversary of the conflict. A team of seven personnel who support the United Kingdom operations ...
While the Type XXI subs sank no ships, their potential terrified Allied navies, prompting intensified anti-submarine efforts. Although they lost World War II, the Nazis were more technologically ...
Key point: The Type XXI provides several lessons in how technology—while important—doesn’t alone win wars. On May 4, 1945 one of the most advanced submarines in the world crept up to a British Royal ...
A missing German submarine said to have taken the defeated Nazi leadership to South America has been discovered after being lost at sea for nearly 73 years. The U-3523 was one of Hitler’s Type XXI ...
Although they lost World War II, the Nazis were more technologically advanced than their Allied rivals in multiple ways. Berlin’s problem was scale—and trying to do too much with too few resources.