The Ki-27 was a single-seater, highly maneuverable, fixed-gear airplane, but it was no match for the Flying Tigers. When one ...

The delivery of SSN 797 is a major milestone for the U.S. Navy and American shipbuilders. In the final days of 2024, General ...

If the Battle of the Philippine Sea had played out differently, Japan's navy might have been decimated by June 1944. One of the most decisive battles of the Second World War could have ended up ...

Only six months after Japan’s December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the Imperial Japanese Navy suffered a crushing defeat in the Battle of Midway in the Pacific. Japan’s war situation from ...

Fuchida was the Imperial Japanese Navy commander of the 350 military aircraft, including fighter jets and bombers, that took off from six carriers on Dec. 7 (Dec. 8 Japan time), 1941, and attacked ...

The Imperial Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941, but Pearl Harbor was only part of a much bigger Japanese operation that day. On Dec. 7, the Japanese not only sank the U.S. Navy's ...

Another interesting fact about Space Battleship Yamato is that the titular battleship is the very same Imperial Japanese Navy mega-cruiser, that the U.S. Navy sank towards the end of WW2 on April ...