Johnny Carano couldn’t wait to go to war like his big brothers. So he didn’t wait. The teenager from Akron, Ohio, left high school, lied about his age, joined the U.S. Navy and served aboard a ...
During World War II, a small American destroyer escort quietly destroyed Japan’s final submarine scouting line in the Pacific ...
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The U.S. Navy has confirmed that a wreck off the Japanese island of Hokkaido is that of USS Albacore, one of the most successful U.S. submarines of World War II. The submarine is thought to have sunk ...
A long-lost legendary Naval submarine has finally been found — more than 80 years after it was torpedoed by Japanese forces. The USS Harder was found resting 3,000 feet below the ocean near the ...
WASHINGTON - The wreckage of a U.S. submarine found off the coast of northern Japan has been identified as the USS Albacore – a vessel believed by the Navy to have struck a mine and sunk during the ...
One had been a star high school athlete who enlisted in the Navy. The other was a recent Tulane graduate in mechanical engineering. Both were New Orleans natives who found themselves aboard the same ...
Sept. 2 marks the 75th anniversary of the formal Japanese surrender ceremony that officially brought World War II to an end. Navy veteran William “Bill” Leibold remembers that time well. He had just ...
Check out this elusive World War II era find: It's a Japanese submarine that had reportedly been planning to attack the Panama Canal. The I-400 was scuttled by the U.S. Navy in 1946 in an attempt to ...
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 ...
The USS Albacore (SS-218) was lost at sea Nov. 7, 1944, after striking a mine. Last month, naval historians confirmed the World War II submarine's wreck site off the coast of Hokkaido, Japan. The site ...