In early 1942, the United States Navy launched a secret plan to fight German U boats attacking ships along the American coast ...

Atik’s mission came from desperation. In early 1942, German submarines were sinking Allied shipping along the North American coast with alarming success. Merchant ships often sailed alone. Coastal ...

The Russians appear to have learned a variation of a maritime ploy – to hide a ship’s mission capability – first used by the British during World War I. German submarines, known as U-boats, proved ...

During World War I, the British navy disguised some of its warships as civilian cargo ships, known as Q Ships, in order to fool the Germans. German U-boat commander Capt. Von Haag spots one of these ...