Deep sea explorers have found two Japanese aircraft carriers that were sunk in battle in World War Two. The carriers were among seven ships that went down in the Battle of Midway, a major air and ...

Only two nations have ever destroyed a U.S. aircraft carrier. Japan destroyed several during World War II, while Germany sank ...

The kamikaze suicide plane was a last-ditch effort to stave off defeat by a desperate Japan. But its fatal flaw doomed its ...

On a cloudless day off the Philippines coast, Shigetoshi Kaneko held onto floating debris while adrift, clinging to hope after esc ...

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 ...

Japan realized this after losing four carriers at the Battle of Midway ... Both the Isa and Hyūga were sunk toward the end of the war and were later surfaced and used as scrap to rebuild Japan ...

The wreck of a US aircraft carrier that was sunk during World War Two has been ... The ship was lost in the Battle of the Coral Sea, fought with Japan from 4-8 May 1942. More than 200 crew members ...