
March 1943, Mid-Atlantic. A type 7 CU boat sits at 200 feet. Engine stopped, crew silent. Above them, a British corvette has made contact. A…

January 24, 1915. 0852 hours. The North Sea 30 mi north of Dogger Bank. Commodore William Good enough’s light cruiser. Southampton cited smoke on the…

December 31, 1942, Baron Sea, Arctic Darkness at 2 in the afternoon. Convoy JW51B crawled toward Merman, 40 merchant ships carrying tanks and aircraft for…

September 1940, the English Channel. Gale force winds rip across Britain’s southeastern coast, tearing loose the barrage balloons, protecting cities from German bombers. These massive…

Picture a mechanic in 1927 lying on his back under a Chrysler sedan, staring up at an impossible problem. Oil was leaking from the engine,…

Imagine holding in your hands a blueprint so complex, so meticulously handfitted that it requires 14,000 individual parts to be assembled by craftsmen with the…

Today’s story is about a deadly tactical gap that plagued Allied anti-ubmarine forces in the North Atlantic during 1943. A gap that allowed German Ubot…

It looked like a torch or perhaps a piece of plumbing. 7 in of dark metal tubing with a ball on one end strapped to…

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1943, Station 9, The Fry. Douglas Everett walked into the staff bar carrying 26 ounces of compressed murder in his sleeve. The scientist spent the…



