Steven Trent Smith, Author at HistoryNet

How the USS Growler’s Heroic Commander Died Saving His Men

by Steven Trent Smith5/5/20225/5/2022

Howard W. Gilmore’s final act of bravery aboard the World War II submarine required the ultimate sacrifice.

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World War II’s Only Canine POW Survived Shipwrecks, Crocodile Attacks, and Japanese Prison Camps

by Steven Trent Smith10/1/20214/5/2022

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This Commander Led Two Underperforming Bomb Groups to Storied Firsts Against Germany

by Steven Trent Smith7/23/20217/27/2021

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Wartime Railroaders Confronted a Tenacious Enemy in the Wilds of Alaska and Yukon Territories

by Steven Trent Smith4/8/20214/8/2021

The Japanese Pilot Who Bombed Mainland America

by Steven Trent Smith6/16/20206/17/2020

The Failed Mission to Take Out Germany’s Desert Fox

by Steven Trent Smith11/14/20191/21/2020

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The Surprising Submarine Squad That Patrolled the North Atlantic

by Steven Trent Smith9/10/20198/13/2021

During Halsey’s Typhoon, Two Captains Fight A Stormy Fate

by Steven Trent Smith2/27/20192/27/2019

A Call To Arms in the Philippines

by Steven Trent Smith9/4/20182/12/2019

Why Captain John Cromwell Chose To Go Down With the Ship

by Steven Trent Smith4/18/20188/1/2019