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.
Second World War
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The British Cruiser That Torpedoed Itself in the Arctic
In March 1942 HMS Trinidad fired a torpedo at a crippled German destroyer in an Arctic snowstorm. It circled back and hit her, killing 32 of her own men.
The Admiral Who Knew Japan Would Lose the War
Isoroku Yamamoto planned Pearl Harbor while warning that Japan could not beat America. He gave it a year. Sixteen months later he was dead in the jungle.
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.
Project Habakkuk: The Aircraft Carrier Made of Ice
In 1943 the Allies seriously planned an aircraft carrier made of ice and wood pulp, and built a model in Canada. Here is how Habakkuk began and why it never sailed.