On a cloudless day off the Philippines coast, Shigetoshi Kaneko held onto floating debris while adrift, clinging to hope after escaping the Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Zuikaku before it ...

The Japanese thus admitted that five carriers and two battleships had been put out of action—a total very near the U.S. claim that six carriers and two battleships had been sunk. > Tokyo said ...

The Japanese carrier Shinano, doomed by compromise and sunk before seeing combat, is another notable failure. -Thailand’s HTMS Chakri Naruebet, once promising, is now essentially a royal yacht ...

INJ Kaga was also one of the four carriers sunk six months later at the Battle of Midway. Both were named for the ancient Kaga Province on Honshu, the main island of Japan. The timing of the ...

Indeed, the first Japanese warship sunk during the war was I-70, a sub that fell victim to aircraft from USS Enterprise. The Allies developed a new class of “escort carriers, small aircraft ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Midway: Sink the Japanese Aircraft Carriers This is a Battle of Midway simulation game. You need to fly a dive bomber, dodge Japanese anti-aircraft fire ...

The USS Edsall, which was sunk during World War ... evading 1,400 shells from Japanese battleships and cruisers before being attacked by 26 carrier dive bombers, taking one fatal hit.

The Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese navy planes was a complete shock to our country. The loss of the battleships was looked upon as a complete disaster. All eight battleships were ...

Two bulk carriers, one sailing under the Singaporean flag and other under Japan’s, have collided in Changjiang River in China.Singapore-registered bulk ...

Ken Potts, one of the last two remaining survivors of the USS Arizona battleship, which sank during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, has died. He was 102. Howard Kenton Potts died on ...

clinging to hope after escaping the Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Zuikaku before it sank. What began as another mission during World War II -- later known as the Battle of Leyte Gulf ...