Tag: Submarines
Lusitania Down — Survivor Recalls Torpedoed Ocean Liner’s Terrifying Final Minutes
“Only my training from boyhood up, in the water and under it, gave me the courage to jump.” ON MAY 7, 1915, the German U-boat U-20 fired a torpedo into the side of the passenger liner RMS Lusitania as it…
America’s Submarine War – How the ‘Silent Service’ Quietly Brought About the Downfall of Japan
“While conventional wisdom holds that the atomic bombs ended the Pacific War, it was America’s blockade of Japan that brought the empire to its knees.” By Augustine Kobayashi WHILE BRITAIN, beleaguered by German U-boats, received…
