Read more: The 10 Most Legendary Planes Of WW2 Ranked From Worst To Best The Japanese transported five midget submarines for the attack aboard I-type submarines. Deployed the night before the air ...

That doesn't mean it couldn't have won World War II. Sounds counterintuitive ... severing the shipping lanes connecting its parts. Japanese submarines were the equals of their U.S. Navy counterparts.

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--Heightened threats from roaming Chinese submarines in the Pacific have sparked a revival of Japan’s long-dormant ship-surveillance program that costs 22.6 billion yen ...

The USS Edsall was overpowered by a Japanese fleet in the Indian Ocean but fought valiantly to the end, the U.S. Navy said.

On August 28, 1945, two US destroyers intercepted a massive Japanese submarine several miles off the coast of Honshu, Japan's biggest island. The submarine, which was larger than either US ship ...

The “Dancing Mouse”—the Clemson-class destroyer more formally known as the USS Edsall—and its more-than-200 servicemen went ...

A Japanese submarine has collided with a commercial ship as it attempted to surface off the country's Pacific coast. Three of the submarine's crew sustained minor injuries in the crash which ...

The USS Grayback and its 80 crew members disappeared in 1944 when it was attacked by a Japanese aircraft. An underwater exploration project found the submarine off the coast of Okinawa ...

Explore the story of the Japanese aircraft carrier Shōkaku, a key player in World War II's Pacific Theater. Discover how ...

which became one of the first Japanese subs lost in World War II. On March 1, 1942, the Edsall was likely responding to a distress call of another American ship when Japanese forces spotted it ...