Completed late in World War II, one Japanese aircraft carrier entered service without a functional air group due to severe ...

In 1943, Japanese pilots dismissed a new American fighter as slow, heavy, and inferior. That aircraft was the F6F Hellcat, ...

It is the most numerous military aircraft ever produced and the second largest number of all types, including civil, ...

World War II was such an all-encompassing conflict that nearly everyone was involved in one way or another. In the United States, civilians gathered scrap metal and other materials for the war effort, ...

Naval vessels are staffed by some of the most courageous people in uniform you’ll ever meet. This was doubly true during the Second World War with the Pacific Ocean being a veritable battlefield ...

The A7M Reppu (Strong Gale) was conceived to succeed the legendary A6M Zero, but it never entered service. Reports from Japan, quoting defense officials in deep background, have said the country’s MoD ...

The Imperial Japanese Navy launched hundreds of fighters and bombers at Pearl Harbor in an effort to paralyze the main U.S. naval base for the Pacific Fleet near Honolulu, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941.