The making of Final Mission: USS Tang Experience: Part Six.  

Through Alex Kershaw’s description of Jesse DaSilva’s passage, we get a glimpse of the mental concentration and struggle necessary to escape a watery grave.

The making of Final Mission: USS Tang Experience: Part Five. 

On the ocean bottom, 180 feet below the surface, a harrowing life-and-death scene plays out inside the USS Tang. 

The making of Final Mission: USS Tang Experience: Part Four.

Firsthand WWII veteran accounts magnify the impact of a Museum travel tour to island battlegrounds.  

Facing their own demise, submarine-warfare pioneers Dudley “Mush” Morton and Richard O’Kane land a fatal blow.  

The making of Final Mission: USS Tang Experience: Part Three.

A casual conversation over bottles of ale in a Hawaii apartment outlines a revolution in submarine attack tactics.

In his memoir, the captain of the USS Tang displays good-humored responses to revelations by his men. 

In a memoir by legendary USS Tang Captain Richard O’Kane, we glimpse the mind-set of a warrior and leader determined to succeed in the cold, pitiless reality of war.

Remembering a decorated WWII Marine and longtime friend of The National WWII Museum.