The air war in Korea is often remembered for the first jet on jet combats and the dreaded “MiG alley.” But a far less remembered part of the air war, before a MiG entered the fray, represented a key, if almost completely overlooked, moment in one of the hottest times of the Cold War.
In September, 1918, two desperate battles unfolded over two consecutive days between lightly armed American Naval vessels and the same German Submarine.