Submarines are cool, there's no better way to put it. They're boats that travel underwater, and since military ones don't so much as have a single porthole, they use echo location to navigate. One of ...

Submarines are fraught with danger, especially in times of war. Often tasked with operating solo or in pairs, submarines end up going on perilous missions to disrupt material shipping, enemy vessels, ...

On the night of October 24, 1944, in the last year of World War II, the submarine USS Tang sank during the attack on a Japanese convoy in the Taiwan Strait. Curiously, it had been struck by one of its ...

There were 569 crewmen of Mare Island submarines lost during World War II, including USS Wahoo and USS Tang. Thanks to Myrna Hayes and Larry Maggini, they won’t be forgotten. For the 19th time, a ...

USS Tang was a Balao-class submarine that came into World War II as late as January of 1944. However, its performance would be unmatched during its short career. Tang would savagely harass the ...

The niece of a submariner lost at sea 71 years ago shared memories of her uncle during a dock side memorial service Saturday for crewmen of Mare Island-built World War II submarines that never came ...

USS Tang (SS-306) was a Balao Class submarine commissioned in October 1943 and served in the Pacific Theater of operations during World War II. Her gifted and aggressive skipper, commander Richard ...

For the past 10 years, the Mare Island Heritage Trust has hosted a free public memorial event in the month of October when both the USS Wahoo and the USS Tang were lost at sea. This year, cadets from ...

Sept. 2 marks the 75th anniversary of the formal Japanese surrender ceremony that officially brought World War II to an end. Navy veteran William “Bill” Leibold remembers that time well. He had just ...