When the transport ship Jacob was bombed off New Guinea in March 1943, flames and explosions sent men leaping into the Pacific as the vessel began to sink. Private George Watson, a strong swimmer from ...
Deep-sea explorers scouring the world's oceans for sunken World War II ships are focusing in on debris fields deep in the Pacific, in an area where one of the most decisive battles of the time took ...
Replica spy boat: A faithful recreation of an SOE surfboat, used for covert rescues in Brittany, has been launched in Cornwall for a National Maritime Museum display. Heroic sculpture: A bronze statue ...
The USS Torsk, a historic submarine that's now a museum in Baltimore, was the last US Navy submarine to sink an enemy ship until Operation Epic Fury.