During World War II ... German U-boats had been laying waste to American vessels along the Eastern Seaboard and into the Gulf of Mexico. Suddenly fighting a war on two oceans, the U.S. Navy ...

In this week's Texas Minute history column, Ken Bridges looks at the life and legacy of Admiral Chester Nimitz.

In the final days of Nazi Germany, far from the European theater, a German ... the Navy designated the event an accident, caused by a boiler explosion inside the ship, meaning none of the sailors ...