During World War II, a small American destroyer escort quietly destroyed Japan’s final submarine scouting line in the Pacific. In May 1944, USS England hunted and eliminated multiple Japanese ...
It was mostly wartime bluster but the lead paragraph in a San Bernardino Sun article in 1942 really seemed spot on: “Hirohito and his war lords would have gnashed their teeth in fury yesterday had ...
On the morning of Dec. 8, 1941, Sergeant David Akui walked along Waimanalo Beach and spotted what he thought was a sea turtle emerging from the surf. Akui quickly realized he had found something far ...
Late in World War II, Japan launched a high-risk submarine mission carrying materials intended to alter the balance of the ...
In the minds of many Americans today, it can be difficult to fully grasp the utter destruction of land and human life the world experienced during the Second World War. However, some of the machines ...
After the attacks on Pearl Harbor, US Admiral Charles Lockwood (commander of the Pacific submarine fleet during WWII) declared that since all Japanese merchantmen in the Pacific were indirectly aiding ...
The USS Silversides Museum — a Muskegon mainstay known to Michigan youth as the place where they once spent the night on a World War II submarine — parted this week with one of its prized exhibits, an ...