US naval construction battalions, known as "Seabees," quickly proved them wrong, setting up Ulithi as an advance base almost immediately after landing in late September 1944. US Navy sailors on ...

The US Navy discovered the long-lost USS Albacore that sank during World War 2. The wreckage of a long-lost submarine that sank during World War II has been identified as the USS Albacore SS-218, ...