The construction of the first I-400 class submarine took place at the dockyards in Kure, a city on Japan's island of Honshu ...

An elaborate scheme of radio denial and deception developed by Japan blinded Washington to Tokyo's intentions.

In the wake of the attack,” Curran said, “(Admiral Isoroku) Yamamoto was said to have commented ‘I fear all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant, and filled him with a terrible resolve.’” ...

In January 1941, however, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto proposed that the decades-old strategy be scrapped in favor of one calling for a first strike on the U.S. Pacific Fleet. It was not a completely ...

It’s April 18th, 1943 and a squadron of P-38s races low over the waves of the Pacific, off the coast of Bougainville Island, modern day Papua New Guinea. In the formation 1st Lieutenant Rex Barber and ...

In it, the Japanese launch surprise attacks against the Philippines, Guam and the U.S. fleet. Isoroku Yamamoto is a Japanese naval attache in Washington, D.C., when the book is reviewed on the ...

Like the Pearl Harbor operation, the Midway operation was the brain-child of Isoroku Yamamoto But it was neither as well planned nor as well executed. Yamamoto s plan for the Midway operation was ...

On the morning of December 7, 1941, an attack planned by Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto to demobilize the US Navy was carried out. Around 7 a.m., an Army radar operator spotted the first wave of the ...

The most prescient observation came from the man who masterminded the attack itself, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. He wrote in his diary, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and ...

The Japanese Imperial Navy killed or wounded approximately four thousand American sailors and soldiers on 7, 1941.