With U-boats sinking dozens of ships each month, Hemingway, Bogart, and other citizens tried to help patrol American waters.
In 1942, over a quarter of a million ordinary citizens volunteered to help defend our country as Nazi submarines terrorized the East Coast and Caribbean waters, sinking fuel tankers and cargo ships with near impunity.
When the first African-Americans to crew a U.S. warship sailed into the war-tossed North Atlantic, they couldn't have known it would take fifty years to gain honor in their own country
An extraordinary World War I naval operation is recounted by the commander of a decaying coastal steamer crammed with a terrifying new explosive
THE LUSITANIA DISASTER: An Episode in Modern Warfare and Diplomacy