The hum of enemy sonar. The jarring stillness before an explosion. The tight, dim corridors of a submarine echo with the sounds of survival. It’s not a scene from a Hollywood film—it’s The Rescue, the ...

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

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 ...

Patrick Zilliacus, a WWII torpedoman on the USS Spot, shares how submarine combat worked in the Pacific. Hear firsthand stories from life aboard a hunter-killer group.

Brent is a Senior Research Fellow for Naval Warfare and Advanced Technology in the Allison Center for National Security. A fight with China will be a naval war, and after 30 years of budget cuts the ...

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Submarines operated in both the Atlantic and Pacific theatres, attacking warships, merchant vessels and supply routes throughout the second World War.

CANBERRA (Reuters) - An Australian Navy minehunter has found the lost wreck of a suspected Japanese World War Two submarine off the South Pacific outpost of Rabaul, Australian defense officials said ...

Aircraft carriers replaced battleships as dominant naval power during WWII by striking targets hundreds of miles beyond visual range. Submarines waged economic warfare targeting supply lines. German U ...