Submarine History

USS KETE (SS-369) set out from Guam on her second war patrol on 1 March 1945. Aboard a boat that was less than a year old and fresh from a refit, the crew must have felt good about their chances [...]

For more than 75 years, two dolphin fish have rested their heads comfortably on the bow planes of the surfaced boat that slices through the seas on the submarine force’s warfare insignia. But sometimes, as described below by former Navy [...]

Before Richard O’Kane became commander of the wildly successful USS TANG (SS-306), was awarded a Medal of Honor, survived a Japanese POW camp, and attained the rank of rear admiral, he served as executive officer of USS WAHOO (SS-238) under [...]

26 May 1945 found USS PIPEFISH (SS-388) pulling lifeguard duty off the coast of Japan; it was to expected that some of the bombers from the day’s attack on Tokyo might end up in the water. Excerpts from that day’s [...]

On 16 February 1943, USS TRITON (SS-201) departed Brisbane, Australia, on her sixth war patrol. Her assigned area: the waters around Papua New Guinea. […]

USS NAUTILUS (SSN-571) may have proved the value of nuclear power to naval propulsion, but her hull shape reflected the traditional surface-ship design that worked well for vessels that spent most of their time atop the waves. It was USS [...]

USS NAUTILUS (SSN-571) may have proved the value of nuclear power to naval propulsion, but her hull shape reflected the traditional surface-ship design that worked well for vessels that spent most of their time atop the waves. It was USS [...]

USS NAUTILUS (SSN-571) may have proved the value of nuclear power to naval propulsion, but her hull shape reflected the traditional surface-ship design that worked well for vessels that spent most of their time atop the waves. It was USS [...]

USS NAUTILUS (SSN-571) may have proved the value of nuclear power to naval propulsion, but her hull shape reflected the traditional surface-ship design that worked well for vessels that spent most of their time atop the waves. It was USS [...]

Ann Agnes Bernatitus was born in Exeter, Pennsylvania, on 21 January 1912. She trained as a nurse, even returning to school for a postgraduate class in operating-room technique and management, but could find no steady job in the depths of [...]