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

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 ...

Bob Fernandez thought he'd go dancing and see the world when he joined the U.S. Navy as a 17-year-old high school student in ...

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 ...

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.’” ...

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 ...

5. The attack’s planner knew it would only buy them six months, and they would eventually lose the war Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who planned the attack, warned fellow leaders that the attack ...

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

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 ...