At dawn on May 8, 1942, the Japanese fleet launched a search mission to locate the U.S. carriers, with aircraft deployed from ...

On the morning of May 7, 1942, a Japanese scout aircraft reported a sighting of U.S. carriers in the Coral Sea, prompting an ...

Deep-sea explorers say they have captured detailed images of three iconic shipwrecks from World War II's Battle of Midway, including the first up-close photos of a Japanese aircraft carrier since it ...

The I-boats were the full-sized submarines of the IJN fleet (meaning they displaced at least 1,000 pounds). The designation does not correspond to the U-boat (Unterseeboot) designation of the German ...

Either way, Taiho would be more advanced — and beautiful — than any Japanese carrier to that point, and in theory capable with her steel flight deck of withstanding greater punishment while launching ...