The Catalina’s actions at Midway not only redeemed its reputation after early war setbacks, but also exemplified how ...

Key Points and Summary on Yamat0-Class Battleships – The Imperial Japanese Navy’s WWII-era Yamato-class warships were the largest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, boasting ...

A team of scientists discovered a Japanese naval destroyer for the first time since it was sunk by American troops in World ...

Leyte Gulf: The Clash That Decimated the Japanese Navy. In late October 1944, the United States and Japan fought what was, by the most useful metrics, the largest naval battle in history.

It got one when the U.S. Navy inflicted what the Naval History and Heritage Command called "a smashing defeat on the Imperial Japanese Navy." ...

Known as the “dancing mouse” due to its slippery movements in that final, fatal fight with the Imperial Japanese Navy, the destroyer USS Edsall went down off the coast of Australia in 1942 ...