In the final weeks of the war, the Navy hunted down and sank five German submarines in the North Atlantic. They stopped what ...

In early 1942, the United States launched a secret naval experiment to stop German submarines. At the center of that gamble was USS Atik and the crew sent to sea aboard her. This story examines how ...

The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the war—flying messages from submarine-hunting blimps during a time when radio ...

The post-war narrative of the German U-boat efforts follows several stages: the first “Happy Time,” followed by the second “Happy Time,” and then utter destruction by the Allies. In reality, the ...

People like to make things more complicated than they need to be, and the words we choose to describe things are just one of those many ways. For instance, consider that all bourbons are whiskey, but ...