U-boats were very vulnerable, and merchant ships were often armed to protect themselves. A ship was a moving target. To score a hit, he had to fire the torpedo ... WW1: Why was the first German ...

Divers Find Wreck of First U.S Destroyer 'USS Jacob Jones' That Was Hit by a Torpedo in 1917 During WWI World War artifacts ...

But in what is now part of folklore surrounding the author of the Problem of the Rupee, a German torpedo sent his work sinking to the bottom of the English Channel. As it happened, the sinking was ...

Two U.S. Navy PT boat captains awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II were both cases in point: Lt. Cmdr. John Bulkeley ...

Under the command of Lt. Cmdr. Maurice Jester, the cutter Icarus sank a German submarine in less than an hour.

What do all these sluggers have in common? None of them is using a torpedo bat. No one on the Guardians roster is using the bat that, after the Yankees pummeled the Milwaukee Brewers in their ...

(Navy History and Heritage Command/National Archives) The motor torpedo boat (MTB), also known as the patrol torpedo (PT) boat, has acquired its own special swashbuckling aura since the American ...

Maurice Jester, the Coast Guard cutter Icarus, shown here, sank a German U-boat off ... North Carolina, as “Torpedo Junction.” During that time, U-boat captains became so confident that ...

After training, he went to serve on board HMS Charybdis, which was sunk after an attack by German Torpedo boats, off the Channel Islands. John spent five hours in the water on a Carley float ...

Baseball Hall of Famer Fergie Jenkins joined the ongoing discussion this week about the use of torpedo bats that has taken the big leagues by storm after the New York Yankees' strong outing over ...