Once USS Barb reaches operational capacity with the Navy, the fast-attack sub will undoubtedly play a role in its sea power.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Tuesday was a milestone for Newport News Shipbuilding. The company hosted a keel laying ceremony, where several leaders took the stage to talk about the future USS Barb (SSN 804), ...

On April 27, 1944, Navy Commander Eugene B. Fluckey took command of the submarine USS Barb in the Pacific. In the space of one year and four missions, his cunning and daring resulted in the most ...

The USS Barb, a 1,525-ton Gato class submarine built at Groton, Connecticut, was commissioned in July 1942. That fall the submarine was sent to operate in European waters, taking part in the Morocco ...

Key point: The Barb’s effectiveness was born from the U.S. Navy’s broader maritime supremacy against Japan. In the closing months of World War II, heavy losses and depleted fuel stocks kept many of ...

Remarkably, the crew of the USS Barb did sink a Japanese train during World War II—though not with torpedoes. In 1945, under Commander Eugene Fluckey, the submarine conducted a daring raid in which a ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Barb’s raids on the Japanese coast—and even those performed by Allied battleships—were premised on the Japanese military’s inability, by 1945, to effectively ...

Once again, the Navy will have USS Barb in the fleet. On Tuesday, Navy Secretary Kenneth Braithwaite announced the names of two new vessels: the John F. Lehman, a future guided-missile destroyer named ...

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