Hayes soon learned about the many crewmen who built seven submarines on Mare Island that were eventually lost during World ...
The nightmares of Allied cargo shipping, the German U-Boats reigned supreme in the turbulent seas during 1940-1942. Taking one of these U-Boats as an example, the U-505 submarine sunk an impressive 8 ...
Midget submarines have been employed by other military powers throughout history, but the U.S. only had one briefly alongside ...
I think I may have submechanophobia. The very thought of being submerged underwater in a solid metal casket loaded with explosive torpedoes chills me to the core. And yet, for Adolf Hitler, ...
The fighting in the Pacific during World War II provides lessons for a new U.S. Pacific nuclear-submarine ... years it takes to build modern nuclear submarines. This reality makes recovering heavily ...
The USS Wasp (CV-7), shaped by the limitations of the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty, is often cited as the worst aircraft ...
Tons of American-produced supplies and war matériel, as well as hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops, had only one way to get to Europe: in ships crossing the North Atlantic. German submarines, or ...
The German U-boat casualty rate was even higher at 75 percent. Point being submarines were uniquely dangerous. But a lot has changed since World War II. Submarines aren’t used as rampantly as ...
So why does the US military not have a single aircraft that can land on water? The honest answer is that they don't need to ...
Almost 80 years have passed since the end of the Second World War, and there is still fascination about German U-boats that ...
Captain-Richard-OKane In World War II, 52 US submarines were lost, with a total of 3,506 officers ... and upon ...