Key Points and Summary – Japan’s Design A-150 “Super Yamato” was meant to be the ultimate battleship: up to 70,000–90,000 ...

A ceremony in observance of the 84th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was held Sunday on the bow of the battleship USS Iowa, with multiple World War II veterans in attendance, ...

Taffy 3—consisting of six escort carriers, three destroyers, and four destroyer escorts—was there to cover troops storming ...

At 14:23, it happened. Yamato’s forward internal magazines detonated in a spectacular fireball. It was like a tactical nuclear weapon going off. Later, a navigation officer on one of Japan’s surviving ...

In January 1936 Japan announced its intention to withdraw from the London Naval Treaty, accusing both the United States and the United Kingdom of negotiating in bad faith. The Japanese sought formal ...

Eighty four years ago, a Japanese attack on an American military base in Hawaii ravaged the Pacific Fleet and led to the US ...

Francis Flaherty wasn't identified until decades after his selfless actions, and now has been buried in Charlotte.

Pearl Harbor’s 84th Anniversary commemoration, themed “Building Pathways to Peace," reflects on the 1941 attack that launched ...