However little more than the foundations were completed. The last part of the Lorient U-boat base was across the inlet at Kernevel, in Larmor-Plage. This was the Villa Kerlilon, which was used by ...

Comdr. Malachi Stormes launches a submarine attack on a German U-boat base in France that destroys three enemy subs. His daring earns him a promotion and... In the prologue to this rousing WWII ...

or U-boats, sunk, scuttled, captured, or otherwise lost to German forces during World War II. Here, naval historian Timothy Mulligan describes 25 of the most historically significant U-boats.

Dönitz observing the arrival of U-94 at St Nazaire in France in June 1941 ... Mallmann-Showell's book, Hitler's U-Boat Bases, ...

In June, France signed an armistice with Germany, and soon three French bases gave U-boats more convenient access ... among civilians and sailors alike, a book of fiction and a feature movie ...

When Caesar’s legions first saw the granite-bound harbors of Armorica (ancient Celtic for Brittany, meaning near the sea) they built their forts on the high ground nearby. The Bretons who came ...

From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned Second World War places that ...

The first things liberated were these lovely binoculars and the U-boat’s visitors’ log book. The items have a great provenance, so the binoculars would be worth at least £1,200-£1,400.