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 very differently. Be glad it didn’t though. Just one Japanese ...
The kamikaze suicide plane was a last-ditch effort to stave off defeat by a desperate Japan. But its fatal flaw doomed its pilots more surely than its targets.
Many acts of heroism occurred during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, including a remarkable fight by the destroyer escort Samuel B ...
On a cloudless day off the Philippines coast, Shigetoshi Kaneko held onto floating debris while adrift, clinging to hope after esc ...
The ship came under attack from the Allied forces, which crippled its rudder. The Imperial Japanese Navy then scuttled the Hiei and it was left to sink. The leisure boat operator repaired the ...
It was a Japanese ship. The American and Chinese forces ... In less than an hour, they had won the last naval battle of World War II. The Americans had ended the war with the brand new ...
The shuttered steel works plant stands on the former site of shipyards that produced the Yamato, the pride of the Imperial Japanese Navy, more than eight decades ago. The ministry is negotiating ...
A team of investigators says they have found the wreck of the USS Stewart, a U.S. Navy destroyer that served under both American and Japanese flags during World War II before it was deliberately ...
(U.S. Naval ... Japanese forces during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. (National Archives) To close with them as quickly as possible, Kurita ordered a “general attack,” which committed his ships ...