It was mostly wartime bluster but the lead paragraph in a San Bernardino Sun article in 1942 really seemed spot on: “Hirohito and his war lords would have gnashed their teeth in fury yesterday had ...
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How one Japanese vessel spectacularly failed at Pearl Harbor
Even before the first Japanese bomb fell, the HA-19 and four other Type A midget submarines were meant to deal the first blow to the “sleeping giant." ...
On the morning of Dec. 8, 1941, Sergeant David Akui walked along Waimanalo Beach and spotted what he thought was a sea turtle emerging from the surf. Akui quickly realized he had found something far ...
In the minds of many Americans today, it can be difficult to fully grasp the utter destruction of land and human life the world experienced during the Second World War. However, some of the machines ...
After the attacks on Pearl Harbor, US Admiral Charles Lockwood (commander of the Pacific submarine fleet during WWII) declared that since all Japanese merchantmen in the Pacific were indirectly aiding ...
Operation Barney was conceptualized by Vice Admiral Lockwood to avenge the loss of the USS Wahoo and her intrepid crew. One of the biggest factors in America’s defeat of Imperial Japan in the Pacific ...
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The secret weapon Japan built too late in World War II
Japan secretly built the largest submarine of World War II, designed to carry aircraft across vast oceans. This video tells ...
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