In late 1944, as the sun rose over the Pacific island of Ulithi, the docked USS Mississinewa - an American tanker loaded with oil and aviation fuel - was preparing for another mission when a sudden ...

World War II texts and oral histories are rife with references to torpedo juice. George Moore served on the destroyer USS Abner Read. As he remembered, “Life aboard ship was not all work and ...

Main picture: a German steam-powered G7a torpedo. Inset top left: in a German U-boat, a seaman learns how to use the periscope, 1941. A Danish fisherman has found an undetonated World War II ...

Manned human torpedoes were first conceived by the British Royal Navy in the early 1900s, but it was Italy that first used them effectively in combat during World War II. By the early 1940s, Italy ...

Thousands of children are still learning survival skills at camps first created to teach young sailors how to withstand torpedo attacks from German U-boats. In 1941, Outward Bound opened their ...

The WWII torpedo takes advantage of the gyroscope's resistance to a change in motion. It uses this property to allow a course to be "programmed" into the torpedo.

(Naval History and Heritage Command) By the middle of 1944, United States Navy submarines had weathered hard times of unreliable torpedoes and a necessary learning process to matured weapons of war, ...

The torpedo from a memorial at Mountwood Park that honors those lost in the submarine service during World War II, was lifted by crane and placed on a trailer Friday by Pifer’s Towing and Recovery.

The centerpiece of the memorial honoring submariners lost during World War II which was removed from Mountwood Park in May to ...

WW2 torpedo survival camp going strong 80 years on. Image ... "In the ‘40s it soon became apparent that there was a disproportionate number of young sailors being lost to torpedo attacks," said ...

WW2 torpedo survival camp going strong 80 years on. 1 ... "In the ‘40s it soon became apparent that there was a disproportionate number of young sailors being lost to torpedo attacks," said ...