Attack on Pearl Harbor - Day of Infamy

The classic WWII movie Tora! Tora! Tora! brilliantly told the story of the attack on Pearl Harbor from both the US and Japanese perspectives. In this scene US intelligence tries to decode Japanese...

No other movie depicts the events of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor from both the US and Japanese point of view. In this scene the leaders of Japan are in a closed door meeting discussing the...

By November of 1941 it appeared that moves were still being made to avoid a military confrontation, the reality was that the Japanese plans for the attack on Pearl Harbor had already been concluded...

With Pearl Harbor, Japan had shown that they were a force to be reckoned with, but many of the ships the Japanese destroyed were obsolete and their gamble that a terrible defeat would make the U.S....

One of the first casualties of Pearl Harbor was the battleship Arizona. She had been hit by a single torpedo ten minutes into the attack, exploding her magazine. The Oklahoma was next, suffering...

The Philippines, with its strong American presence, was a key target for the Japanese in the North Pacific, and an attack began on the islands only hours after news of the attack on Pearl Harbor...

The formerly ruling Samurai class was not pleased with Japan's Westernization. Toward the end of the 19th century a civil war was waged between the last Samurai under the leadership of Saigo...

The idea of launching aircraft from water is almost as old as powered flight itself. As early as 1910 attempts were being made to launch planes from ships, but it was Britain that launched the...

At a time of global imperialism Japan wanted to take an active role. Toward this end Japan began occupying Korea using it as the center for its continental expansion. This set Japan up as a global...

Despite controversy the U.S. Navy's first carrier, the USS Langley, was completed in 1922. It was a conversion of a former WW I battleship, and landing the underpowered planes on the pitching deck...