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 ...

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

The Navy destroyer was sunk in 1942 during World War II, after facing down overwhelming odds and fighting a pitched battle.

Japan held a memorial ceremony near the Sado Island Gold Mines, listed this summer as a UNESCO World Heritage site after the ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 World War Two heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis has been found in the Pacific Ocean, 72 years after its sinking by a Japanese submarine. The warship was discovered 18,000 feet (5.5km) beneath the ...