Earlier this week, researchers from the University of Hawaii and the Hawaii Underwater Research Lab located the remains of a Japanese midget submarine. Found in 1200 feet of water, the submarine was sunk by the USS Ward just an hour before the aerial attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Most important, the discovery of the midget submarine offers concrete physical evidence that the United...
The folks at The National Security Archive are always up to something interesting, like this recently released electronic briefing book. The site provides users with access to numerous documents related to the activities of Soviet submarines during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Visitors can look over the original Soviet Navy map of the Caribbean, which shows the locations of the four Foxtrot diesel...