The USS Tang's fifth and final war patrol was filled with more chaos than most people see in lifetime. In its second to last day at sea, the Tang encountered a large Japanese convoy that included ...

The USS Tang was a Balao-class submarine designed to sink ships, and in her short career, that's precisely what she did. The Tang has an impressive war record, having sunk 33 enemy ships from the ...

USS Tang returning to Pearl Harbor after its second war patrol, May 15, 1944. US Navy Commissioned in 1943, USS Tang was a Balao-class diesel-electric submarine with a crew of 87 and an arsenal of ...

On October 24, 1944, during World War II, the USS Tang sank off the coast of China. The submarine was destroyed by its own torpedo, which slammed into the port side while launching an attack on a ...

The Tang had been making a nighttime surface attack when it was sunk by one of its own torpedoes, which ran errantly in a circle, hitting the 300-foot sub in the stern. All but nine of the 87 men ...

Meet O’Kane and the USS Tang. The USS Tang – named for a fish species and not for the powdered orange juice drink popularized by the Gemini astronauts – was a Balao-class submarine.

The USS Tang was a state-of-the-art Balao class submarine, certified by the Navy to dive up to 400 feet. But in order to test her for battle, commander Dick O'Kane decides to take her even deeper.

The second USS Tang, SS-563, was the first ship in its class of diesel submarines, commissioned in October 1951. It went on to earn four battle stars for service in Vietnamese waters and later ...

U.S. Navy sailors man the rails as the guided-missile destroyer USS O'Kane departs Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, on March 23, 2012, for a deployment to the Western Pacific.

Filming starts tomorrow aboard the USS Cod which will stand in for three sister submarines of World War II in documentaries for the National Geographic Channel and Smithsonian Channel.

The USS Tang was a Balao-class submarine designed to sink ships, and in her short career, that's precisely what she did. The Tang has an impressive war record, having sunk 33 enemy ships from the ...