On Apr. 7, 1945, aircraft from the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier task force sank the largest battleship ever built, the Imperial ...
During World War II, a small American destroyer escort quietly destroyed Japan’s final submarine scouting line in the Pacific ...
Just days after Japan’s surrender, as the shock of Hiroshima and Nagasaki still hung over the nation, reports reached what ...
What You Need to Know: The Yamato-class battleships were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, designed by Imperial Japan before World War II to assert naval dominance.
Gauging an untested opponent: U.S. perceptions of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1918-1941 -- Dismantling the "lesser foe" and the "superior enemy" images, December 1941 to early 1943 -- The elusive ...