Dan Barnett teaches philosophy at Butte College. Send review requests to [email protected]. Columns archived at ...

Accidents involving toilets typically only involve personal embarrassment, and rarely are they the cause behind the sinking of a specialized hunter-killer submarine. That's precisely what happened, ...

In an era of hypersonic missiles, stealth fighters, and nuclear subs, it’s hard to picture sailors going toe-to-toe with the enemy on a ship’s deck. Yet during World War II, the crew of a brand-new ...

The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the war—flying messages from submarine-hunting blimps during a time when radio ...

An amateur researcher’s first book details the story of a German submarine that was secretly brought into Bermuda during the Second World War. The United States Navy captured the U-boat U505 off the ...