USS Tang, commanded by Richard O’Kane, was the most successful American submarine of World War II, playing a pivotal role in crippling Japan’s war effort beneath the Pacific. Through aggressive night ...

Remarkably, the crew of the USS Barb did sink a Japanese train during World War II—though not with torpedoes. In 1945, under Commander Eugene Fluckey, the submarine conducted a daring raid in which a ...

Eight days into his first boat command, Karl-Adolf Schlitt made a toilet mistake that would get the whole crew captured or ...

In the final weeks of the war, the Navy hunted down and sank five German submarines in the North Atlantic. They stopped what ...

As long as Jim Black is alive, the USS Scorpion SS-278 Base plans to continue honoring a fellow submarine sailor.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The World War II submarine that was built in 1943 in Connecticut and completed six war patrols returned Oct. 15 to its resting ...

The USS Silversides Museum — a Muskegon mainstay known to Michigan youth as the place where they once spent the night on a World War II submarine — parted this week with one of its prized exhibits, an ...

In the minds of many Americans today, it can be difficult to fully grasp the utter destruction of land and human life the world experienced during the Second World War. However, some of the machines ...

Werner Hartenstein pulled drowning British troops from the Atlantic Ocean in September 1942. The German U-boat commander was flying Red Cross flags and even radioed for help in English. American ...