The Japanese had put to sea during World War II a submarine fleet that was unmatched as to its diversity in the entire world. Large, globe-spanning models such as the I-400 (Sen Toku Type) with ...

Japanese Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki, one of the two men in the HA-19 in Hawaii, survived after the sub was attacked by U.S. planes and became the first Japanese prisoner in the war.

The USS England, a destroyer escort commissioned in 1943, carved its name into naval history during World War II by achieving ...

The World War II submarine USS Harder was found near the Philippines island Luzon 80 years after it was sunk by Japanese torpedoes, the Naval History and Heritage Command said.

During World War II, U.S. Navy submarines made up only two percent of the ocean-going fleet but were responsible for sinking more than 30 percent of the Japanese Navy vessels.

At the same time, their Japanese opponents had yet to fully address the threat that these underwater marauders posed to the ...

Unlike Japan's dwarf submarines of World War II, the I-400 subs were 400 feet long and 39 feet wide, with a surface speed of 19 knots.The I-400 and her sister ship, the I-401, could stay out at ...

The Navy has confirmed the discovery of the missing World War II submarine USS Albacore (SS-218) off Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island by a team of Japanese researchers.

The sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis is widely known as a shark story—but the truth is much more horrifying.

The wreckage of a U.S. submarine from World War II was found off the coast of Hokkaido in northern Japan — after disappearing almost 80 years ago. The USS Albacore, credited with sinking at ...

How did a Japanese WWII submarine end up in Texas? After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the mini-sub washed ashore in Hawaii in December 1941. Then came the fight over who’d get to keep it.