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By the summer of 1943, USS POMPANO (SS-181) was already an accomplished submarine, a veteran of six war patrols. On 20 August, she left Midway with high hopes for further success. She had been ordered to patrol off the east [...]

Samuel David Dealey was born in Dallas, Texas, on 13 September 1906. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1930 and was subsequently commissioned as an ensign. He served aboard several surface ships and was promoted to lieutenant (jg) before [...]

USS SCULPIN (SS-191) began her ninth war patrol on 7 November 1943, departing Johnston Atoll, where she had stopped to fill up on fuel after leaving Pearl Harbor, for the Caroline Islands in the western Pacific Ocean. The United States [...]

Firefighters and military personnel unfurl the American flag from the roof of the Pentagon, 12 September 2001. 184 people—70 civilians and 55 servicemembers in the Pentagon, 59 people aboard the aircraft—were killed the previous day when American Airlines Flight 77 [...]

Monday’s “Tidbit” about memories of USS HADDO (SS-255) included the entry, “When Porter was left topside on a dive in the warzone, the tough time we had finding him, and how ‘Doc’ (Lilly? or Wortham?) took care of him?” Harry [...]

USS GRAYLING (SS-209) stood out from Fremantle, Australia, to begin her eighth war patrol on 30 July 1943. The boat was fresh off a 24-day refit and had a brand-new C.O., Lieutenant Commander Robert M. Brinker. (His predecessor, Lieutenant Commander [...]

In March of 1975, a Sailor who served aboard USS HADDO (SS-255) during World War II sent out his second-to-last “ ‘Happy Haddo’ Reunion Newsletter.” In it he included a section called REMEMBER? What follows is a list of just [...]

The two men most closely associated with Turtle, the first submarine ever to be used in combat, are David Bushnell, her designer and builder, and Ezra Lee, her operator on the night of the famous attack, described in yesterday’s “Tidbit.” [...]

In the dead of night on 7 September 1776, 238 years ago this Sunday, a strange semi-submerged vessel made its way out into New York Harbor. The mission of the tiny American submersible, named Turtle: send the massive 64-gun British [...]