CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. It's 1942 and the USS Silversides, a U.S. submarine submerged in the Pacific, is frantically trying to dodge depth charges dropped by a Japanese ...

Several American sailors climbed aboard the German submarine U-505, focused on saving it from sinking into the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. They did not know if the Nazi submariners who dove ...

The final resting place of the 79 sailors aboard the submarine Harder has been found. The boat was sunk by Japanese depth charges on Aug. 24, 1944, while Harder was on patrol. Its last known location ...

Generally speaking, a submarine cannot typically outrun an enemy torpedo outright, but submarines do use speed in other ways to avoid fatal hits.

On February 27, 1944, a Japanese Nakajima B5N torpedo bomber patrolling over the East China Sea near Okinawa spotted the glinting hull of a submarine surfaced above the water. Earlier that very day, ...

Submarines are fraught with danger, especially in times of war. Often tasked with operating solo or in pairs, submarines end up going on perilous missions to disrupt material shipping, enemy vessels, ...

The Harder, famous in Navy history for sinking several Japanese destroyers in World War II, was missing for eight decades. By Nicholas Slayton Published May 25, 2024 3:08 PM EDT Eighty years after it ...

CAPE ELIZABETH, Maine (AP) — A private dive team has located one of the last U.S. Navy warships to be sunk by a German submarine in World War II, just a few miles (kilometers) off the coast of Maine.

This undated photo, provided by the National WW II Museum in New Orleans, shows Oberleutnant zur See Hans-Gunther Kuhlmann, center, saluting commander of the German U-boat U-166 on his boat. The U-166 ...