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On this site you will find all the German U-boats of both World Wars, their commanding officers and operations including all Allied ships attacked, technological information and much more. You can also browse our large photo gallery and thousands of U-boat books and movies. While hundreds of U-boats were lost some of the boats are preserved as museums today.

We also have a huge section covering the Allied forces and their struggle with the U-boat threat – not to mention the Pacific war. Included there are all the Allied Warships and thousands of Allied Commanding officers from all the major navies (US Navy, Royal Navy, …) plus technical pages and information on the air forces.

What's new on this site

17 Nov
New book review published
Published a new review of the title An Honorable German by Charles McCain. You can subscribe to our reviews via e-mail.

16 Nov
3 new pages added
Just added 3 new pages to the site; Most successful convoy attacks by a U-boat (showing what U-boat had best results in a convoy battle), and then Greatest loss of life (WWII ships hit) and Largest loss of life (WWI ships hit). These are common questions and now a page explains these losses.

10 Nov
The Oskar Kusch case
Added references to the Oskar Kusch case to the two U-boat commanders that had key roles in his court martial, death sentence and execution; Dr. Ulrich Abel (his IWO who reported Kusch for cowardice) and Otto Westphalen who was a judge on the court and took part in overruling the prosecutor's suggestion of 10 years with a death sentence.

8 Nov
U-boat Commander Photos added
Added photos of the following 5 German U-boat commanders of WWI;
Kptlt. Horst Degen, Kptlt. Karl-Heinz Hagenau, Kptlt. Klaus Harney, Kptlt. Wolfgang Riekeberg and KrvKpt. Alois Zech.

26 Oct
U-boat Commander Decorations pages rebuilt
I have just relaunched the totally re-done section for U-boat Commander decorations for the officers of WWII. This meant building them all from our databases while keeping the historial information we had on the old pages. The new section is much nicer as now you can see all the recipients for each award. At the same time I am adding more information on decorations (and ranks) to as many officers as I can.