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, ...
As the Allies advanced through the Solomons in mid-1943, their next objective was Kolombangara. But what awaited them was a ...
In June 1944, the United States Navy did something it had not attempted since the War of 1812. American sailors boarded and ...
Eight days into his first boat command, Karl-Adolf Schlitt made a toilet mistake that would get the whole crew captured or ...
Werner Hartenstein pulled drowning British troops from the Atlantic Ocean in September 1942. The German U-boat commander was flying Red Cross flags and even radioed for help in English. American ...
The first USS Utah was lost in the attack on Pearl Harbor, and no other ship was named for the Copper State until Saturday’s dedication ceremony. Last Friday, at a ceremony in Groton, Connecticut, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The USS Silversides submarine sank 23 ships and earned 12 battle stars during World War II. Visitors can tour the vessel at the ...