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 ...

During World War II, a typical torpedo was an intelligent missile weighing about 3,000 pounds, with a range of roughly 4 miles (6.4 kilometers).

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 ...

(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 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.

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.

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 ...