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A smooth-talking sailor looking for a quick date meets an admiral's granddaughter and finds himself in a house full of top Navy officers, along with a couple of spies interested in plans for a new robot-controlled flight system.

Tim Pigott-Smith narrates the story of the battle for Guadalcanal and the capture of this strategically crucial island in World War 2 during which more than 25,000 Japanese lost their lives.

On the eve of the Spanish American War the United States Navy was a fragmented organization geographically, organizationally, and deficient in skills such as gunnery. The war made the Navy realize it's poor state leading it to embark on a total overhaul over the decades leading up to World War Two.

As long as people have sailed the seas there have been shipwrecks. Here are just a few of them with known locations and a few airplanes. Depths and sizes are graphically represented along with the years they sank. There all types of ships of all sizes from all over the world over the past four thousand years.

The Titanic is often thought of as the largest sunken ship. But many sunken warships are larger. Here are the top ten with the stories of how they met their fate.

In 1942 American attacks on Japanese merchant shipping were so ineffective that they practically no impact. The problem was finally resolved in late 1943. And in 1944 submarine and air attacks so devastated Japan's imports that Japan lost the ability to fight a naval war.

A look at the effectiveness of Kamikaze attacks in the final year of World War Two, the ships that were most vulnerable and how the US Navy adapted to defend against them.