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In the mid-1940s, Literary Classics, Inc. published a three-volume set of books titled This is Your America. The work was a compendium of dozens of short non-fiction pieces about a wide range of topics. One, found in Volume III, came [...]

If you’ve visited the Submarine Force Museum, you probably noticed the model wall that runs the length of our main hallway. It displays scale models of each class of American submarine from 1900 to the present, along with a list [...]

At 11:15 PM (EDT) on 3 August 1958, USS NAUTILUS (SSN-571) became the first vessel of any kind to reach the geographic North Pole. The boat’s navigator, Lieutenant Shep Jenks, filled out a special ship’s position form for the occasion—then [...]

In the midst of the fourth war patrol of USS APOGON (SS-308), on 12 July 1944, her crew discovered that enemy vessels didn’t have to employ explosives in order to cause serious damage. […]

On 11 April 1942, USS GRUNION (SS-216) was commissioned at Electric Boat Company in Groton, CT. It would have been difficult to imagine on that day of new beginnings that the new sub had less than four months to live. [...]

On 12 April 1942, the German U-boat U-558 stood out from Brest, France, to begin her seventh war patrol. Exactly one month later, her reign of terror began when she sank the British armed trawler HMT Bedfordshire, which was assisting [...]

American submarines proved to be a devastatingly effective fighting force during World War II. Although they made up less than two percent of the U.S. Navy, they sent more than thirty percent of the Japanese Navy and sixty percent of [...]

USS ROBALO (SS-273) was built at Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company in Manitowoc, Wisconsin and commissioned on 28 September 1943. She was soon on her way to Pearl Harbor. Her first patrol, 57 days long, yielded only a single unsuccessful attack. Perhaps [...]

George Levick Street, III, was born in Richmond, Virginia, on 27 July 1913. He joined the Naval Reserve in 1931 and was chosen to attend the Naval Academy in 1933, graduating in 1937. He served aboard a light cruiser and [...]