Discover the amazing story of Douglas SBD Dauntless 2106—the only plane to survive the attack on Pearl Harbor and return to fight at the Battle of Midway.
Last week you read about the Bataan Death March which began on April 9, 1942, and forced transfer of approximately 75,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war (POWs) by the Japanese Imperial Army ...
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Kaga - The 39,000-ton carrier hit at Midway during a hangar deck ordnance nightmare
Kaga began as a battleship hull repurposed into an aircraft carrier and became a veteran strike platform by 1941, carrying a large air group and heavy gun armament for a carrier. The transcript ...
A new book chronicles the tense negotiations that secured the return of nearly 3,000 Allied civilians held by the Japanese ...
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The dive bomber that had no armor yet attacked the Japanese fleet
By 1942 the SB2U Vindicator was already obsolete — slow, lightly armed, and dangerously fragile. Yet when the Battle of Midway began, Marine pilots still climbed into these outdated dive bombers and ...
Back in the day, Col. Robert McCormick's Chicago Tribune led the isolationist parade. Even after Pearl Harbor. When the rest of the country was demanding taking the war to the Japanese, the Trib kept ...
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