The USS Lionfish was commissioned in 1944 and earned one battle star for service in World War II. It sank a Japanese submarine, rescued the crew of a B-29 bomber, and served as a training submarine.

World War II proved that control of the oceans could determine the outcome of a global conflict. While battleships had long ...

To this day, there has only been one recorded instance of submarine-on-submarine warfare during WWII. The German Navy's destroyed U-864 is toxic to this day.

In June 1943, a Kentucky congressman walked up to a microphone and gave Japan one of its greatest intelligence victories of WWII.

USS Cobia returned from dry dock in Sturgeon Bay last month sporting something new — 245! It’s the first time she’s worn her hull numbers since the last dry docking in 1996. Back then, the project ...

This video explores the secret submarines and torpedo technology developed by Germany and Italy during World War II. These advanced naval weapons were designed to disrupt Allied shipping routes and ...

The crew included a man who was born and raised in Asheville. The discovery of the USS Grunion on Wednesday night culminates a five-year search led by the sons of its commander, Mannert Abele, and may ...

This video features rare World War II footage of a Japanese submarine crew operating at sea. Submarines played a significant role in Pacific naval strategy, carrying out reconnaissance missions, ...

Visitors can tour the vessel at the USS Silversides Submarine Museum in Muskegon, Michigan. The submarine was the site of a successful emergency appendectomy in enemy waters in 1942. Christmas Eve, ...

In the midst of the Falklands War, British sailors hunting for ARA San Luis launched ordnance at the sonar and radar signals of whales, wrecks, and even flocks of seagulls — anything that might have ...