As long as Jim Black is alive, the USS Scorpion SS-278 Base plans to continue honoring a fellow submarine sailor.
In the final weeks of the war, the Navy hunted down and sank five German submarines in the North Atlantic. They stopped what they believed was an imminent attack on the East Coast.
The USS Snook (SS-279) was one of the most successful American submarines of World War II, sinking dozens of enemy ships during her wartime service. On April 8, 1945, she radioed her position in the ...