Japan’s Hiryu represented the fierce capability of the Imperial Japanese Navy ... what Yours Truly considers to be the ...

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

The Zero endures as a symbol of Imperial Japan’s efficiency and menace. Imperial Japan’s most iconic piece of military ...

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Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...

Since 1945 aircraft carriers have proved that they have an ... that development from its very beginnings in the First World War ...