Joseph Rochfort, a maverick US naval officer with a talent for crosswords, and John Tiltman, a British Army Brigadier, never ...

Donated by the naval officer’s descendants, the two letters are now on display at the Fukushima Museum in Japan to mark the ...

There is a quote often attributed to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbour, that it might have “awakened a sleeping giant”. A similar simile is attributed to Napoleon ...

April 23, 2006: Here is how the press of today might have reported on the World War II American mission to kill Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the master mind of the attack on Pearl Harbor. This operation ...

The life of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto from the early 1930's to his death at the hands of the US military in 1943. How much did Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet earn at the ...

It’s April 18th, 1943 and a squadron of P-38s races low over the waves of the Pacific, off the coast of Bougainville Island, modern day Papua New Guinea. In the formation 1st Lieutenant Rex Barber and ...

The Pilots Who Failed to Protect Admiral Yamamoto This is the story of the six A6M3 Zero pilots, flying for the Imperial Japanese Navy, who failed to protect Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto on April 18th of ...

The official Japanese news agency Domei last week attributed this statement to Japan’s naval Commander in Chief, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, in “a letter which Yamamoto sent to a close friend ...