Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Laying a section of hull on the keel during construction of USS Puffer (SS 268) at the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company on Feb. 16, ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. It's 1942 and the USS Silversides, a U.S. submarine submerged in the Pacific, is frantically trying to dodge depth charges dropped by a Japanese ...
The Soviet RBU-6000 system was designed to defend surface ships against nearby submarine threats using rapid rocket-launched depth charges. Its evolution into the RPK-8 system shows how Cold War naval ...
The introduction of the submarine to naval warfare reshaped planning and doctrine. While typical engagements relied on guns ...
It was only a year after Kalispell native Harry Anderson graduated college that he was assigned to the USS Perch II’s (SS-313) sixth patrol near the very end of World War II’s Pacific Theater. The ...
Depth charges have changed little since World War II. Essentially barrels packed with high-explosive, depth charges were a potent part of Anti-Submarine Warfare. Since eclipsed in effectiveness by ...
Diesel-powered submarines present a challenge that may seem paradoxical at first. Their engines require ...
USS Puffer (SS 268), the fourth submarine constructed by the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company during World War II, was launched on Nov. 22, 1942. Over nine successful patrols in the Pacific, Puffer ...