Japan’s Hiryu represented the fierce capability of the Imperial Japanese Navy ... what Yours Truly considers to be the Aircraft Carriers of World War II. Might as well start with the most ...

Aircraft carriers are the premiere warships used by blue water navies around the world, and it's been that way since World War II. After the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor on ...

The Zero endures as a symbol of Imperial Japan’s efficiency and menace. Imperial Japan’s most iconic piece of military ...

The USS Enterprise (CV-6), an aircraft carrier, was the most decorated American naval vessel to fight in World War II and ...

Media in China are warning against Japan's “remilitarisation” after the country unveiled its biggest warship since World War II on Tuesday ... helicopter carrier a “quasi-aircraft carrier ...

TOKYO--Japan said its warplanes used flares to warn a Russian reconnaissance aircraft to leave northern Japanese airspace ... from Japan at the end of World War II. The feud has prevented the ...

June: Battle of Midway: In what is later seen as the "turning point" of the Pacific war, American carrier aircraft sink all four of the Japanese navy's major aircraft carriers along with a cruiser.

NISHINOOMOTE, Kagoshima Prefecture--Wreckage of a wartime Japanese aircraft salvaged from the ... suicide missions in the waning days of World War II. It was found roughly 300 meters off Cape ...