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.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U-505 submarine served 12 patrols and sank eight enemy boats before the US Navy captured it. The U-boat is now on display at ...

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 ...

The U-505 submarine served 12 patrols and sank eight enemy boats before the US Navy captured it in 1944. The U-boat is now on display at Chicago's Griffin Museum of Science and Industry. Visitors can ...

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 U.S. Navy has some of the most advanced nuclear submarines in the world. Its newest addition is named after an important World War II ship.