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The final resting place of an iconic U.S. Navy submarine that was sunk 80 years ago during World War II was located 3,000 feet below the ocean's surface, the Naval History and Heritage Command said Thursday. TheUSS Harder– which earned the nickname "Hit 'em HARDER" – was...
A World War II-era Japanese submarine that had been captured and intentionally sunk by U.S. forces was discovered earlier this year in its watery tomb. The massive submarine, lost underwater since 1946, was found off the coast of the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Researchers at the Hawaii Unders...
south of Iceland. In October, while assisting a British convoy, USS Kearny dropped depth charges on attacking German submarines; returning fire, U-568 struck Kearny with a torpedo, killing 11 men, who would become the US Navy's first casualties in the Atlantic War. Angrily, for America was...
The centenary of the outbreak of World War One is also being marked with a lecture by historian Cormac O Comhrai’s on life in Ireland during the Great War, while Killaloe will also be marking the millennial anniversary of the death of one of its most famous citizens, Brian Ború. Meanw...
The newspaper quoted military sources as saying that if the officer was found to have been involved in spying, it would represent the worst espionage scandal since the “Lo Hsien-che” case. Lo, an Army general who was lured by a honey trap into spying for China during his time at Taiw...
she was transferred to the Soviet Northern Fleet, which necessitated her designation to ShCh-401. In Apr 1942, she became missing off northern Norway some time after reporting she had attacked German submarine chaser UJ 1110 in failure; she either struck a mine shortly after the report, or was...
7 and damaging a small tanker; all 3 torpedoes fired in this attack found their targets. 4 Nov 1944 USS Ray spotted Japanese cargo ship Kagu Maru, already burning from an attack by USS Bream, in the Philippine Islands; Ray fired two torpedoes at Kagu Maru, hitting her with one of them...
Arthur Cadogan West, a young government clerk, is found dead by the railway tracks near Aldgate. On his body Holmes' brother Mycroft finds some secret submarine plans 3 pages of which seem to be missing. These pages alone, in the wrong ... ...
William Hooper was a chemist who set up a factory around 1845 in Mitcham, Surrey, to produce rubber goods mostly for the medical profession. He experimented with rubber insulation for electric cables and eventually found a way of insulating cables in a continuous process. ...