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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...