The Submarine Sunk by the Last Torpedo It Fired
In October 1944 USS Tang, the deadliest American submarine of the war, fired her last torpedo. It turned in a circle and sank her. Of 87 men, nine lived.
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The Ice Cream Ship That Sailed to War With the Pacific Fleet
In 1945 the US Navy towed a million-dollar concrete barge across the Pacific. Its job: to make ten gallons of ice cream every seven minutes for the fleet.