Japan’s aircraft carrier Unryū was struck by an American torpedo while on its first mission, carrying a secret weapon to Luzon. Despite the damage, Captain Kaname Konishi maintained control, ...

Rather than issue a formal statement, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is said to be planning to release a “personal message” to ...

Control of Midway island was part of the Japanese navy’s plan to dominate the Pacific. American codebreakers had other ideas.

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A mysterious military vehicle located three miles underwater aboard the shipwrecked World War II-era USS Yorktown wasn ... a naval showdown between the US and Japan in the Pacific in 1942 ...