At the start of WWII, the Imperial Japanese Navy’s aircraft carriers were among the most powerful tools of war in the Pacific. After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Japan launched a ...

What would happen if a modern U.S. supercarrier faced the entire Imperial Japanese Navy of World War II? This thought ...

Major find: Sunken WWII Japanese battleship discovered. An Imperial Japenese Navy ship, the battleship Hiei, which sank on November 14, 1942, has been discovered.

By the outbreak of World War II, battleships had come to symbolize a nation's strength in the face of its enemy, and no other vessel embodied the might of the Imperial Japanese Navy like the Yamato.

WWII ships sunk during the epic Battle of Iwo Jima have been raised from the bottom of the ocean after tremors from a Japanese volcano. Satellite images show the battered remains of 24 transport ...

A U.S. Navy destroyer escort that engaged a superior Japanese fleet in the largest sea battle of World War II in the Philippines has become the deepest wreck to be discovered, according to explorers.

During the battle of Guadalcanal on Nov. 13 and 14, 1942, Hiei was part of a Japanese task force that engaged in close-range battles with U.S. Navy ships led by Rear Adm. Daniel J. Callaghan ...

The ship was built and launched during World War II, getting commissioned on April 28, 1944. ... This small ship took on the finest of the Japanese Navy, fighting them to the end.

Wreckage of sunken Japanese WWII ship found 00:30. A team of investigators says they have found the wreck of the USS Stewart, a U.S. Navy destroyer that served under both American and Japanese ...

The USS Edsall was overpowered by a Japanese fleet in the Indian Ocean but fought valiantly to the end, the U.S. Navy said. It was found in deep waters south of Australia's Christmas Island.

He received the Navy Cross posthumously for sinking three Japanese ships in a single day during the war. The Navy commissioned a ship in his honor on July 4, 1944.

But since Emperor Hirohito had announced the surrender of the Japanese Navy and Army on Aug. 15, the sea voyage should have been uneventful. A Chinese junk and an World War I-era U.S. Navy armored ...