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, ...

Operation Thunderhead was a classified 1972 mission to rescue American prisoners expected to escape from the Hanoi Hilton and reach the Red River. Lieutenant Melvin Spencer Dry led a Navy SEAL team ...

Submarines have evolved throughout history to become some of the most important vessels in naval warfare. During World War II, the Allied and Axis powers fielded fleets of subs, and the U.S. Navy's so ...

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — A World War II submarine that was sunk with 80 souls on board three-quarters of a century ago has been found by an underwater archaeology team. A tragic reality of war, the ...

OKINAWA, Japan – A World War II submarine that had been missing for more than 75 years has been located in the waters off Japan. Explorer Tim Taylor’s Lost 52 Project team announced Sunday that the ...

It's been 75 years since the USS Grayback went missing with 80 sailors aboard. Now, an organization that searches for sunken World War II submarines has solved the mystery of where it went down. On ...

The “Silent Service,” i.e. the U.S. Navy’s submarine fleet, made many impressive contributions to the American victory over Imperial Japan during WWII, ravaging the latter nation’s merchant marine ...

The USS Grayback was sunk in 1944 during its 10th combat patrol by a Japanese warplane, according to the Naval History and Heritage Command. A single errant digit in the longitude and latitude due to ...