December 31st, 1942. As German heavy cruisers closed in on a small Allied convoy in the Barents Sea, the destroyer HMS Achates made a desperate charge. She laid a smokescreen and drew the enemy’s fire ...
The high seas were dangerous places during World War II, an unforgiving expanse where nations vied for supremacy, just as they fought each other on land and in the skies. Military ships of all types ...