In the 1930s, both the US and Japan thought war was inevitable, but despite warnings, Americans didn't believe the Japanese could strike Pearl Harbor ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the morning of December 7, 1941, an attack planned by Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto to demobilize the US Navy was carried out. One of more than 180 planes used in the attack.AP Around 7 a.m., an Army ...

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

1, 1939, Pearl Harbor changed everything. Under the command of Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto and Chuichi Nagumo, the Japanese 1st Air Fleet, which had sailed undercover for Hawaii in late November ...

Following the destruction at Pearl Harbor, the commanding Japanese admiral, Isoroku Yamamoto, stated to his subordinate officers that “I fear we have only awakened a sleeping giant.” ...