Isoroku Yamamoto was the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Imperial Navy during the Second World War. He was a veteran of ...

ALBANY, N.Y.-- A group from the U.S. and Japan is trekking to a remote Pacific island jungle to document what is considered one of the most important wreck sites of World War II: where American ...

A combined force of American and Royal New Zealand Air Force dive bombers taxi to a runway on the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea on April 16, 1944. The island is where American fighters ...

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (April 4, 1884-April 18, 1943) is a notorious military figure, as he was the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet during much of World War II. Yamamoto was responsible for ...

Key Point: America had broken Tokyo’s codes and was able to prepare an ambush. This time, the target wasn’t a terrorist. It was the Japanese admiral who planned the Pearl Harbor operation. But the ...

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Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to attack Pearl Harbour, an order he was duty bound to obey which went against his own personal beliefs.

Izuru Narushima's well-crafted, rather old-fashioned and unquestioning elegy to Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, at once the strongest opponent to Japan's entry into WWII and its greatest naval hero, succeeds ...

The US campaign in the Pacific got off to a slow start after the attack on Pearl Harbor. But by spring 1943, US forces were in a position to go after the architect of the attack. The daring, high-risk ...