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 ...

Submarines were crucial to both the Allies and the Axis powers during World War II. The German Navy would build 1,156 U-boats, of which 784 were lost from enemy action or other causes. U-boats hit no ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BANGKOK, Thailand — Divers have found what they believe is the wreck of a U.S. Navy submarine lost 77 years ago in Southeast Asia, providing a coda to a stirring but little-known tale from World War ...