At the beginning of America's involvement in World War II, Galveston Island was a recreation center for servicemen. Every evening throngs of soldiers, sailors,

Between 1942 and 1943, 24 German submarines entered the Gulf of Mexico and attached American ships. American response was chaotic until organized.

In 1942 German U-boats turned the shipping lanes off Cape Hatteras into a sea of death. Cruising up and down the U.S. eastern seaboard, they sank 259 ships, lit

Never-before-published, firsthand accounts of under-sea action presented with a summary of torpedo tactics illustrate how a submarine's crew can hit a target tr