The taut Tom Hanks action film "Greyhound" is set in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in 1942, as a convoy of battleships dodge enemy torpedos. Practically the entire movie was filmed on sound stages ...

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In the early morning of Nov. 20, 1944, during the final stage of World War II, there was a huge explosion on the U.S.S. Mississinewa, a replenishment oil tanker for the U.S. fleet in the Pacific Ocean ...

Germany introduced the T5 acoustic torpedo in 1943 as a new answer to the growing Allied advantage in the Atlantic. Unlike earlier torpedoes, it could home in on the sound of a ship’s propellers, ...