Navy pilot John Leppla was credited with shooting down five Japanese aircraft in aerial combat before he was shot down and ...

Team members who raised most of the plane from a depth of about 20 meters said it was likely a Type 97 carrier-based attack bomber used by the Imperial Japanese Navy. The model was used for ...

A court found the assailant guilty of attempted murder in the 2023 attack on Fumio Kishida, then prime minister. By Martin Fackler and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Tokyo A court in western Japan ...

The damage was comparable to the atomic bombings a few months later in August 1945, but unlike those attacks, the Japanese ...

The PV-1 bomber, which also bore four guns ... the U.S. counterattack on the Japanese four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The SBDs, however, were credited with downing a Japanese D3A dive bomber and five B5N torpedo bombers. Although the Battle of the Coral Sea ended in a tactical victory for Japan, the U.S. had ...