On July 1, 1942, a U.S. submarine torpedoed the SS Montevideo Maru, not knowing it was carrying Allied captives. When the ...

OMAHA BEACH, France — The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much blood ...

The Associated Press Jack Stowe, who lied about being 15 to join the Navy after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, said he ...

World War II veterans, now mostly centenarians, have returned with the same message they fought for then: Freedom is worth ...

Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese Marshal Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II, had lived in the United States when ...

Meanwhile, the similarity between Ukraine’s strikes on Russia and the Imperial Japanese Navy’s attack on the US naval base in Hawaii is the element of surprise. Both Russia and the US were caught off ...

The Secretary of the Navy this week noted some specific benefits Japanese and South Korean shipyards have that Americans can learn from, while hinting foreign allied shipyards could perform more ...

The attack on Pearl Harbour was a surprise military strike carried out by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the US naval base at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941.

An 83-year-old woman lost her father, who served in the Imperial Japanese Navy. She said she cannot bear to think that he still lies on the ocean floor off Japan's Pacific Coast and wants to ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ...

The military began using parts of Makua for live-fire training in the 1920s when the islands were governed as a U.S. territory, but after the Japanese navy’s attack on Dec. 7, 1941, the military ...

Image: Imperial War Museums With ... which resulted in Japanese forces losing 476 aircraft, 13 submarines, five destroyers, two oil tankers and three aircraft carriers. In comparison, the US Navy lost ...