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 ...

Control of Midway island was part of the Japanese navy’s plan to dominate the Pacific. American codebreakers had other ideas.

The Japanese strategy was to not meet their enemy ... beach head with full participation from all their available dive bombers. April 3, 1945 — A most memorable day for Ensign Fuller as this ...

The Japanese concentrated all their fury on Corregidor after Bataan fell April 9. Against the rugged fortress and sister bastions they turned loose wave after wave of high level and dive bombers ...

Two delicate paper dragons occupy the cockpit of the Aichi Seiran, a 1940s-era Japanese dive and torpedo bomber ... Three of the bombers fit into an 11.5-foot-wide hangar tube inside the sub.

US Navy “Captain Joshua Nix and his crew fought valiantly, evading 1,400 shells from Japanese battleships and cruisers, before being attacked by 26 carrier-dive bombers, taking only one fatal ...

The warship was sunk on March 1, 1942, three months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, during an encounter with Japanese battleships and dive bombers. "Captain Joshua Nix and his crew fought ...

Breaking contact with Shokaku’s dive bombers, the Akagi Zeros flew south ... To assure himself that the pilot was Japanese, Moton said, “I picked his head up by the top of the helmet and ...

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 ...