In World War I, writes Chicoan and naval historian David Bruhn, “German U-boats sank over 5,200 vessels and came dangerously close to choking off Britain’s critical supply of food in the spring of ...
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 ...
The destroyer Jacob Jones (DD-61) sinks off the Scilly Islands, England, on Dec. 6, 1917, after she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-53. (Seaman William G. Ellis, Smithsonian Institution ...
Frederick Lois Riefkohl in 1911 (Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) MELBOURNE, Fla. — Frederick Riefkohl was the first Puerto Rican to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy. A World War I hero who ...
A World War I-era German U-boat submarine has been found 100 years after it was wrecked in U.S. waters. The U-111, the last World War I-era German submarine to be discovered in U.S. waters, was sunk ...
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