On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun on Virginia Beach, a massive fireball erupted from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. By the next day, three ships l
Recounts the exciting clash that took place in June 1942 when a German U-701 destroyed three oil tankers offshore of Virginia Beach and describes U.S. Lieutenant Harry J. Kane's quest to bring down th
Recounts the exciting clash that took place in June 1942 when a German U-701 destroyed three oil tankers offshore of Virginia Beach and describes U.S. Lieutenant Harry J. Kane's quest to bring down th
The United States experienced its most harrowing military disaster of World War II not in 1941 at Pearl Harbor but in the period from 1942 to 1943, in Atlantic coastal waters from Newfoundland to the
The United States experienced its most harrowing military disaster of World War II not in 1941 at Pearl Harbor but in the period from 1942 to 1943, in Atlantic coastal waters from Newfoundland to the
One Navy admiral called it “one of the greatest unsolved sea mysteries of our era.” The U.S. Navy officially describes it an inexplicable accident. For decades, the real story of the disaster eluded j
A history of the Battle of the Atlantic describes the events in the spring of 1943 when a handful of American, British, and Canadian sailors successfully fought back against the German U-boats that th
