The USS Lionfish was commissioned in 1944 and earned one battle star for service in World War II. It sank a Japanese submarine, rescued the crew of a B-29 bomber, and served as a training submarine.

It was mostly wartime bluster but the lead paragraph in a San Bernardino Sun article in 1942 really seemed spot on: “Hirohito and his war lords would have gnashed their teeth in fury yesterday had ...

World War II proved that control of the oceans could determine the outcome of a global conflict. While battleships had long ...

This video features rare World War II footage of a Japanese submarine crew operating at sea. Submarines played a significant role in Pacific naval strategy, carrying out reconnaissance missions, ...

During World War II, Japan developed one of the most ambitious naval weapons of the conflict—the I-400 Sen-Toku class submarine carriers. These massive submarines, the largest of WW II, were designed ...

World War II made one thing clear: control of the seas could decide the fate of nations. Although battleships had ...

In June 1943, a Kentucky congressman walked up to a microphone and gave Japan one of its greatest intelligence victories of WWII.

Cara Tabachnick is a news editor at CBSNews.com. Cara began her career on the crime beat at Newsday. She has written for Marie Claire, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. She reports on ...

A long-lost legendary Naval submarine has finally been found — more than 80 years after it was torpedoed by Japanese forces. The USS Harder was found resting 3,000 feet below the ocean near the ...