It takes a special breed of men, and now increasingly women, to serve on naval submarines. Few can truly appreciate the cramped conditions, stale air, and lack of natural light but the situation was ...
Some truly legendary submarines saw combat in World War II, with Germany's formidable U-boats being some of the best known. Naval travel was essential to opposing nations in order to transport weapons ...
During the Second World War, the U.S. Navy referred to its submarines and their crews as “The Silent Service.” Fittingly, the late great historian Clay Blair Jr. – himself a WWII submariner – chose ...